According to a popular Puranic story, Shiva once emerged from deep samadhi and uttered the single word: ‘Rama.’ Surprised, Parvati asked what this meant, as she had never heard the word before. Shiva replied that this was hardly surprising, as the time had not come to bring it to the … Read More
No two events in recent times have saddened me so much as the media response to the Archaeological Survey of India’s report on Ayodhya and Saturday’s car bomb in Srinagar which killed six persons, including a senior army officer, and injured twenty-nine others. Even though the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen claimed … Read More
The tasteless offensive by certain groups in London against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the motivated uproar against the release of the accused in the Best Bakery carnage following perjury by a series of witnesses from one community, the studied silence against the massacre of Hindu fishermen in Marad, the … Read More
There is simply no honest way to avoid stating the bald truth that the common citizen today feels that his sense of justice, decency and fair play have been violated by the very organs of state entrusted with upholding decorum in public life. Prejudiced by a campaign orchestrated by a … Read More
The alacrity with which Muslim intellectuals have rejected the Supreme Court’s call for a uniform civil code to ensure equal justice to all citizens highlights the community’s determination to maintain a privileged ghettoized existence by taking advantage of our secular polity. Sayeeda Hameed, former member, National Commission for Women, has … Read More
Over the past year, Left historians have gone hammer and tongs at the NCERT’s new textbooks on history. While criticism of factual errors is wholly justified, there can be little doubt that much of the motivation has been ideological rather than altruistic. Regular press conferences and ceaseless media hype are … Read More
Ever since NCERT Director, Dr. J.S. Rajput, made public his decision to modernize primers in all subjects, a barrage of one-sided criticism has accompanied the proposed updating of history textbooks. Even before new books could be commissioned, historians and writers with known left leanings began attributing motives to the then … Read More
Its apparent failure notwithstanding, the Kanchi Shankaracharya’s mediation in the Ayodhya impasse marks a definite step forward in the movement for the recovery of the birthplace of a God intimately linked with resistance to the molestation of Hindu society in the medieval period. Many Indians today are unaware that Rama … Read More
One is at pains to understand the rationale behind certain security experts virtually egging New Delhi on to send troops to help the United States to hold Iraq in the face of native hostility to alien domination. Beyond vacuous threats that India will loose its prospective place in the comity … Read More
The innate decency of the Hindu ethos precludes India from ever subscribing to Prof. Samuel Huntington’s vulgar formulation regarding the clash of civilizations. Essentially an euphemism for armed conflict between the White Christian and Arab-dominated Muslim worlds to conclude the unfinished medieval Crusades, this simplistic, yet vituperative doctrine would be … Read More
