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
Even in his last cogent moments, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan proved he was made of a different mettle. Far from losing his nerve at the unexpected dastardly attack upon him, Mr. Mahajan kept his wits about him, directing his wife to call close relations and take him to … Read More
Under the guise of human rights and freedom of religion, America has for some time been promoting certain Dalit activists, who regularly report to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, about India’s internal affairs. Now, American … Read More
Unknown to most Indians, the raging controversy over the California school textbooks being challenged by Hindu American parents is rooted in the staunch commitment of certain academics to the Biblical version of Creation. Herr Michael Witzel, whose professional reputation is linked to the Aryan Invasion Theory, which derives from a … Read More
Wipro chairman Azim Premji has firmly articulated corporate India’s dislike of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s politely veiled threat to introduce caste-based reservations in the private sector. Though other voices have been more moderate, there can be no mistaking the dismay caused by the UPA government’s insistence on imposing a non-professional, … Read More
The Election Commission having forced the Centre to postpone Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh’s controversial attempt to impose a reservation quota hike from 22.5 percent to 49.5 percent in 20 central universities and institutions such as the IITs, IIMs, and medical colleges, political parties would do well to set … Read More
Imagine a scenario in which Ravana was no villain, but a beloved brother of Rama. Such a fundamental transformation in the portrayal of a key character in an epic could hardly occur without an equally elemental alteration in the status of other lead players. More crucially, this would necessitate a … Read More
Even before the Election Commission could take cognizance of the vacancy in the Rai Bareilly parliamentary constituency, Ms. Sonia Gandhi was on the campaign trail, shrilly shrieking victimhood to the gullible masses of the family’s old pocket borough. Her return to the Lok Sabha is not in doubt. What is … Read More
