The alacrity with which Russia has cracked down on non-governmental organisations receiving foreign funds has valuable lessons for India, where ideologically-driven NGOs use not only foreign but also Indian public funds to pursue a divisive non-national agenda. Many of these groups owe their high public profile less to grassroots activity … Read More
The Union Home Secretary’s directive to the Gujarat government to furnish details about the discovery of a so-called mass grave of post-Godhra victims at Lunavada in the Panchmahals district is an unwarranted intrusion in the powers of the State Government and a tacit encouragement to the scandalously adventurist postures of … Read More
A new communal faultline has been added to the body politic vide the 104th Constitution Amendment Bill which provides reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in unaided private educational institutions, including schools, but excludes minority institutions from its ambit. The legislation is fraught with dangers for the homogeneity and … Read More
As the White House resorts to intellectual demagoguery to manipulate world opinion on Iran, Iraq, and the United Nations, some things need articulation. One is that despite the intensity with which a ‘demonize Islam’ project is being promoted worldwide, real engagement with the ‘religion of peace’ is being vehemently discouraged, … Read More
The Indian diaspora in America is upset over the manner in which the California education department has permitted known anti-Hindu baiters like Harvard professor Michael Witzel and other usual suspects to intrude in the textbook selection and reform process, in violation of established norms. The result is that while the … Read More
Two indigenous groups with a lived history of centuries of civilizational amity are supposedly engaged in fratricidal conflict in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. To the bewilderment of the majority of Karbis and Dimasas, gangs of armed and hooded goons have been killing members of both tribes since late September, while … Read More
Conversions undermine the national interest in the most unimaginable ways, and since the British consciously mooted conversions to Christianity to perpetuate their rule by alienating converts from native society and civilization, discerning Indians would do well do follow the current Supreme Court hearing on a petition demanding reservation benefits to … Read More
In north India, particularly in the Mathura region, Krishna is worshipped as the Lord of Radha, and “Radhe Radhe” is the common civilian greeting in this part of the country. Krishna is also revered as Radha-Ramana (Beloved of Radha), and as Radha-Krishna. Radha shunned all contemporary mortal ties for sublime … Read More
Having salivated over the sauce in the Volcker report and thrown Mr. Natwar Singh out of the Foreign Ministry, may we ask where the beef is? I ask because I am sufficiently Gandhian to believe there must be a moral relationship between ends and means, and while the goal of … Read More
Former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan said “religion is behaviour and not mere belief.” By this yardstick, those committing violence in the name of Islam are not, as the US State Department and our own leaders claim, “misguided” believers. Terrorists planning and committing atrocities in the name of Islam, particularly when backed … Read More
