The current initiative of Sri Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada Peetham to mobilize Hindu seers to protect dharma in the face of rising depredations by evangelists has not come a day too soon. While religious conversions are innately offensive, the rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman Catholic … Read More
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remark that the “under-representation” of Muslims in public employment and public life is “unacceptable” is a classic example of the irresponsible brinksmanship that characterizes her public life. Inaugurating the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi recently, Ms. Gandhi tacitly held Hindu society responsible for the Muslim … Read More
RECENT developments in neighbouring Nepal, where a caretaker regime has literally usurped unacceptable powers to humiliate the King and change the character of the nation, have shown Indian foreign policy in a poor light. But this is by no means the only occasion on which the UPA Government has handled … Read More
Some time after the arrest of the Kanchi Acharyas, the BJP Think Tank hosted a talk where an ideologue defended the greatest civilizational insult Hindu India has suffered since the assassination of Guru Tegh Bahadur by a rabid Islamist ruler. The speaker diminished the seers and insinuated that chief minister … Read More
President Kalam’s shocking decision to return the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill 2006 for reconsideration under Article 111 is a major reprieve for the beleaguered Prime Minister. Though superficially an embarrassment for the UPA regime, the President’s refusal to endorse the wholesale exemption of certain posts from the purview … Read More
Caste electorates, on the lines of the British Raj’s notorious communal electorates, may well be the next atrocity that the Sonia Gandhi-led UPA inflicts upon the nation in its search for a foolproof and captive votebank, as Congress braces itself for an inevitable mid-term poll. The writing on the wall … Read More
Three Vatican-affiliated satrapies have unilaterally banned the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, thereby affirming paramount loyalty to Il Papa as opposed to the Indian nation. Nagaland, as is well known, was among the first states in which foreign Christian missionaries armed, trained and inspired tribal converts to secede from New … Read More
It must have come as a surprise to Information & Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmushi that India’s supposedly small Roman Catholic community can field two hundred organizations to protest the screening of the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel by the same name. Certainly it would … Read More
The countdown for an early demise of the UPA regime has begun. As of now, there is great secrecy over whether the National Advisory Council (NAC) will eventually be exempted from the purview of the ‘office of profit,’ whether Ms. Sonia Gandhi will return as chairperson if her cabinet rank … Read More
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs’ determination to impose minority status upon Jainas has come has a shock to a community that has long regarded itself as the cream of Hindu society. Obviously, Mr. A.R. Antulay is only continuing the UPA policy of fragmenting the nation by offering reservations to … Read More
