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February Month Articles

  • Stage set for all-women's religious fest
    • by The Hindu
      Women in thousands have started pouring in to participate in Friday's 'Pongala' festival at Attukal temple, famed as 'Women's Sabarimala' for attracting one of the world's biggest female congregations. .....
  • Berlin's Hindus to build two new temples - Feature
    • by Earth Times
      After years of praying in a cellar in a west Berlin street, the German capital's 6,000 Hindus can look forward to worshipping in two brand-new temples. A local Hindu group this week announced plans to build a temple to the god Murugan, just three months after other Hindus conducted a ground-breaking ceremony for one dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha. .....
  • Gujarat to connect 16,000 villages via broadband
    • by The Economic Times
      After launching Jyotigram Yojana which aims at supplying electricity to all villages, Gujarat is planning another ambitious project to provide broadband links to its rural areas. .....
  • MP madrassas boycott Iskcon's mid-day meals
    • by Suchandana Gupta
      Madrassas in Ujjain have boycotted the Madhya Pradesh government's mid-day meal scheme for students on the ground that the food is being prepared by Iskcon, the Hindu religious organisation spreading Krishna consciousness throughout the world. .....
  • Hindus have the lowest divorce rate in US: Survey
    • by Aziz Haniffa
      Not only are the Hindus and Mormons the most likely to be married (78 percent and 71 percent respectively), but also the most likely to be married to someone within their own faith (90 percent and 83 percent respectively), a landmark survey that details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the remarkable dynamism taking place in the US religious marketplace has found. .....
  • If Kosovo, why not Tibet?
    • by Claude Arpi
      Backed by the US and the EU, Kosovo has declared 'independence' from Serbia, although its claim to 'sovereignty' is extremely dubious. But the independence of another nation, Tibet, continues to be denied by China. The US and EU are least interested .....
  • Sitar, harmonium to be taught in UK schools
    • by Hindustan Times
      For the first time, schools in London will introduce sitar and Indian harmonium in its music lessons from the next academic year starting in September. .....
  • The "deadly triangle of LTTE+ NGO+ Christian extremists exposed
    • by Srilanka Watch
      Due to prompt action by the Seeduwa Police in setting up road blocks, police were able to arrest the person suspected to have transported them to Mabole area in a van bearing the licence plate number 57-7399 at the road block at Kala Oya around 1 p.m. The arrested person was later identified as a pastor of a church in Mannar which is a branch of Four Square Church, a Christian evangelist group. .....
  • Major victory for Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti
    • by Pramod Kumar
      "We have won only one battle and three more battles are still to be won. The second battle to be won is against the Hindi textbooks, which are replete with more poisonous text than that in the history books. The hearing on our PIL against the Hindi books is going on in the court and the court has to deliver its verdict soon. Our third battle is against sex education and fourth battle is against Delhi University, which is teaching highly distorted history to college students." .....
  • A clash of cultures
    • by Randeep Singh Nandal
      Bhaiya - it's a term commonly used to describe an inhabitant of eastern UP and Bihar. A term used in exact opposite sense of what it means. .....
  • Gujarat spends more, gets good rating
    • by Hindustan Times
      The UPA government's constant tirade about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi being anti-minorities has not reflected in the Centre's own stock-taking report on minority welfare. In fact, the Minority Affairs Ministry has given a positive rating to the work done in Gujarat for minorities. .....
  • Eminent Parsis
    • by Manju Gupta
      This collection of 12 profiles of eminent Parsis of India covers the era from the 19th century to the contemporary times to cover the freedom fighter, industrialist, lawyer, scientist, Field Marshal and even a conductor of western classical music. .....
  • UPA inducements for conversion
    • by Dr. Indulata Das
      The communities designated as minorities, which include Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Budhists and Parsis (Zorastrains) account for 18.4 per cent of the India's population according to 2001 Census. Among them, Muslims constitute the largest group with 13.4 per cent of our population followed by Christians 2.3 per cent. .....
  • No part of India is safe anymore
    • by AK Kaul
      Apropos the editorial, "Camping in Karnataka" (February 4), the report on the discovery of an Islamist terrorist training camp in Karnataka only confirms that jihadis have spread their tentacles across the country. What is, however, disgusting is the public apathy towards such unnerving developments. .....
  • Letter From A Seattle Chief To The President In Washington
    • by Csun.edu
      "The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? .....
  • A Drum & A Dream The Suppression of African Spirituality during Slavery in the US
    • by Dorothy Randall Gray, MSc, Interfaith Minister
      I come to you this evening as Dorothy Randall Gray, but in fact, I don't know my real family name, the name of my lineage. That name was stolen from me 400 years ago when my people were stolen out of Africa. They were sold into slavery in America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave." .....
  • Karnataka youths were planning to revive SIMI
    • by Johnson T A, Bangalore
      After the chance arrest of two youths-Raziuddin Nasir and Mohammed Asadullah-from Karnataka's Davangere region on January 11 for suspicious activities, much of the focus of the investigations has been on Nasir's terror connections. .....
  • Kosovo and Islam`s Balkanization of the World
    • by Daniel Greenfield
      Even as the world rushes to embrace the newly manufactured Kosovo as a country, the rise of a splinter Muslim country in Europe can't help but give hope to Islamic terrorists fighting to create breakaway states in Thailand, the Philippines, Israel, India and Kenya among many others. .....
  • A Marxist Duplicity
    • by Shri Punj
      Introduction: By the way why do the Marxists play down global threat of Islamic terrorism? Is that to placate their constituency of Muslim appeasement ever since the united CPI supported the demand for Pakistan from the very beginning? Yechuri wants to remind L.K. Advani about the Babri demolition case; that is only a political charge. .....
  • Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-West extremism
    • by World Net Daily
      An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism, WND has learned. .....
  • Iranian clerics face a backlash over good life
    • by Kay Biouki in Teheran and Gethin Chamberlain
      The Ayatollah Khomenei brought millions on to the streets of Iran to overthrow the decadence of the Shah. Now the late leader's grandsons and other Iranian clerics face a backlash over their families' fondness for fast cars, big houses and hot tubs. .....
  • Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists
    • by Iran Focus
      An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece. .....
  • Bangladeshi scribe details torture
    • by Vicky Nanjappa
      Tasneem Khalil, a Bangladeshi journalist who worked for the Daily Star and CNN, who was picked up by Bangladeshi military intelligence in May 2007 and kept in detention for over 22 hours, has written about his ordeal in a Human Rights Watch report. .....
  • The Making of Islamist Suicide Bombers
    • by Sultan Shahin
      Is suicide compatible with Islamic teachings? The question has been debated endlessly for the last several years. The clear consensus of Islamic scholars now is that it is not. And yet extremist groups continue to use human bombs as their weapon of choice in several parts of the Muslim world. How do they manage to entice Muslims into committing such a heinous crime against humanity? .....
  • Karnataka: Cops looking for Yahya's associate
    • by Vicky Nanjappa
      He was arrested for his role in the Surat riots case. And all this time the man was out on bail and was even reporting to the police station once a week in Bangalore. .....
  • The problem with the Arab World
    • by Ibn Jeylan
      There are many problems with the Arab world. In this article I would like to talk briefly about three problems. The three problems are important because they are shaping what we think or know regarding the Arabs. After all, Islam came from the Arabs. .....
  • "Vedas contain references to infinity"
    • by The Hindu
      Ancient India had recognised importance of the concept of infinity whereas other civilisations frowned upon it, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, said on Monday. .....
  • May there be polls
    • by The Indian Express
      Democracy is animated by the big idea and programme but it is as much the unspectacular habit and routine. It follows a time-table. Every five years, the people renew their pact with their representatives, elect a government. In this context, the clamour from some quarters that the Election Commission should delay the assembly polls in Karnataka must be asked to explain itself. In the democratic and constitutional order of things, Karnataka must elect a new assembly by May 28, when the six months' duration of president's rule runs out. .....
  • How do you win back 11 villages from Naxal control? Check with these 75 policemen
    • by Vivek Deshpande
      The loud, long-winding call in the dead of night breaks the silence in this village situated perilously close to the thickly-forested Naxal dreamland of Abujmad. Twelve hard-hit bangs of tolls rippling out of an iron bell, denoting the time, follow. And barely have the echoes died, there's another one: "two number sentryiiiiiiii..., hoshiyaaaar hai" followed, this time, by a solitary toll. Then another one. And then yet another one. And then the call-toll combo is fired one last time by the fifth sentry. .....
  • Fabulous fusion of Japanese poetry, Indian dance
    • by The Hindu
      She presented the white snows of winter; the delicate pink Sakura blooms of spring; the red heat of the summer and the yellow leaves on the rivers in autumn in poetic fashion. .....
  • Why are Rajputs agitating over Jodha-Akbar Story?
    • by Dr. Harishchandra Shah
      A few Muslims, while acknowledging the 'isolate instances' of suppression of Hindus by the 'handful Muslim tyrants' of the medieval past like Ghouri, Ghaznavi, Nadir Shah, Aurangzeb, etc., express no sorrow, remorse, regrets, apologies, etc., for their 'savagery and crimes against humanity,' but, nevertheless proudly claim themselves along with over 140 million Indian Muslims to be the descendants of the great patriotic Indian! -- Emperor Akbar (grandson of warlord Babur). .....
  • Muslim heads huddle to discuss terror
    • by The Times of India
      A meeting at Darul Uloom at Deoband next week, expected to be attended by ulema from over 6,000 madrassas including those affiliated to other sects like Barelvis and Ahl-e-Hadiz, will deliberate on the need to take a stand against groups which justify terrorism as being sanctioned by Islam. .....
  • Jodhpur then, Jodhaa now
    • by Priyadarsi Dutta
      Could 2008 prove even a flimsy remake of 1708, the annus mirabilis of Rajput resurgence? In that year,Jodhpur, the state of the Rathors, secured freedomfrom Mughal hegemony, after waging relentless battle for 30 years. Aurangzeb had proclaimed its annexationafter his dissenting ally, Maharaja Jaswant Singh I,died prematurely in 1678. The leader of that protracted war of independence was Veer Durga Das Rathore (1638-1719), cherished as "defender of the people of Marwar". .....
  • Metro turns to Bhagavad Gita for management lessons
    • by Smriti Kak Ramachandran
      The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation does not believe in intense vigilance nor does it rely on hidden cameras to plug leaks and nab wrongdoers. Instead the organisation has turned to Bhagavad Gita to stem corruption, lethargy and negligence. .....
  • Bana Singh : a hero of our times
    • by Francois Gautier
      Bana Singh was born on 6 January 1949 and now lives in R.S.Pura near Jammu. He joined Indian Army's Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (JAK LI) on 6 January 1969 After training at the High Altitude Training School along with his battalion at Gulmarg, he was posted in Siachen in April 1987. Pakistan had already occupied a vantage point called Quaid Post named after Mohammad Ali Jinnah. This is the most important and highest post in the area. .....
  • Remembering a doctor, who ignited hope in many lives
    • by Anand Arya
      Pramod Karan Sethi, popularly known as Dr P.K. Sethi made a unique contribution in the field of orthopaedic rehabilitation by developing 'Jaipur Foot', a wood and rubber ankle foot prosthesis, which has changed the lives of millions of amputees in the developing and underdeveloped countries. He was born on November 28, 1927, in the holy city of Banaras (Varanasi) in India. .....
  • Conversions? - Not with foreign funds, Please!
    • by B.R. Haran
      The arrival of East India Company and the subsequent British regime have been the launch pad for foreign Christian missionaries to land in India and establish themselves. They penetrated in to the far and wide of the country in the guise of focusing on "Education & Health Care" sectors to help the poor and downtrodden of the country. The Indian leaders, who were fighting for the freedom lost focus on the penetration of these missionaries. .....
  • Teesta's attack leaves SC fuming
    • by The Pioneer
      The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned it would not hear any of the pending Godhra riot cases if social activist Teesta Setalvad represented the petitioners. The court was outraged over its criticism by Setalvad for delay in providing justice to the riot victims. Setalvad had attacked the judiciary in a recent write-up published in leading newspapers. .....
  • Old shrine found
    • by The Hindu
      What was meant to be an exercise to infuse amity among the police and public near here turned out to be a unique spiritual and social adventure when efforts of the men in khaki led to the unravelling of an ancient temple shrouded for decades by wild growth. Of course, the police-public interface suffused enough friendliness. .....
  • At the cost of Hindus
    • by Sandhya Jain
      Secularism has evolved into an odious fast-track for the disproportionate ascent of religious minorities in the top echelons of Indian polity, and their hijack of the state and its resources to pander to sectarian fundamentalism. Ever since Rajiv Gandhi's craven surrender in the Shah Bano case, there has been an insidious chipping away at the nation's secular edifice in a manner tailored to crystallise and partition minority identities. .....
  • Aryan invasion story 'a western myth'
    • by Surendra Ulla
      An eminent Indologist and a visiting professor at the University of Houston, Dr Pramod Pathak has challenged the basis of age old theory perpetrated by Western scholars about the invasion by Aryans in India and of driving the Dasuys South ward.Talking to the media in Chicago, Dr Pathak said that his study and research revealed that the Aryan invasion theory is a myth and it is perpetuated by the English scholars from the time of their invasion of India in the 17th century. .....
  • Biofuels - An Assault on the World`s Poor
    • by Deepak Lal
      Food riots in Indonesia, Mexico, Egypt, the Philippines and Vietnam. Price controls and food rationing in Pakistan and China. Are we back to the Malthusian trap as prices of agricultural and food commodities from wheat and corn to dairy products and meat have risen in the last few years to historically unprecedented levels? .....
  • A tale of near misses
    • by Prem Shankar Jha
      Everyone loves a good race, and we are no exception. The 22 primaries in the United States have, therefore, captured the headlines in all Indian papers. But should the American battle not have provoked some reflection in our country on where we are headed? After all, we too face a general election only months after the American President is elected. .....
  • Lalu's 'chhat puja' remarks provocative: SP
    • by Afternoon Despatch & Courier
      The Samajwadi Party has criticised Railway Minister Lalu Prasad' remark about performing chhat puja in Mumbai saying these were 'provocative' "I don't agree with what Lalu has said", SP General Secretary Amar Singh told reporters here when asked to comment on reports that the RJD chief had dared to perform the puja in front of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's residence. .....
  • Raj vows to thwart UP day celebration
    • by Afternoon Despatch & Courier
      Maintaining his tough stand towards north Indians, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray has vowed not to allow celebration of Uttar Pradesh day and warned his party will take on "political goondaism" of north Indians in Maharashtra with open hands. .....
  • From Silicon Valley to terror haven
    • by The Times of India
      Bangalore tops the list of terror hubs in Karnataka. The antiterrorist cell classified the state into two zones. Bangalore falls in Category I as a hub for terrorists from Pakistan and Bangladesh. .....
  • Terror cloud over K'taka
    • by N D Shiva Kumar
      Doctors, engineers and techies. The face of terror has changed in Karnataka. In less than two years, seven youths with professional degrees or registered for professional courses have been held in the drive against terror. The number is set to increase as the state police sets out on a manhunt for more educated youths who are absconding. .....
  • B'lore engineer with terror designs held
    • by N D Shiva Kumar and Ambarish B
      An electrical engineer once employed with a leading US multinational and now an active member of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has been arrested from Bangalore by police who claim the 32-year-old could hold the key to cracking a dangerous terror web that spanned a large swathe across India, from UP to Kerala. .....
  • The biochemistry of Sudarshan Kriya
    • by Manoj Jain
      Ever wonder what causes us to age resulting in death of our body cells over the years, develop heart disease leading to plaque in the artery, or suffer from cancer causing cells to mutate and grow erratically? The answer may be simpler than we think. .....
  • Fighting a war with two mobikes, one phone and no drinking water
    • by Nitin Mahajan
      Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls it the most serious internal security threat the ountry faces. The toll in Naxalite violence has surged over the last two years to almost one death each day. The Sunday Express reporters travel to police stations in the heart of Naxal country in six states. .....
  • The really unacceptable toll
    • by Nadine Kreisberger
      I have been following the saga of the new Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway with a mélange of amusement, bewilderment and more recently, with concern. .....
  • He still doesn't get it
    • by Shekhar Gupta
      One of the most remarkable reactions to the Pakistani election result came, predictably, from Pervez Musharraf. All parties, he said, should accept defeat gracefully. You would have thought, for a moment, that it was a misquote, or that some TV headline writer had perhaps abbreviated much too brutally what was perhaps a more nuanced statement. .....
  • Bangalore techie held for terror took Lashkar man on Kerala tour: police
    • by Johnson T A and Rajeev P I
      In a catch possibly reaching the nerve centre of the activities of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, the Corps of Detectives of the Karnataka police have arrested a former software engineer and discovered that he may be a key link to SIMI activities in India and to leaders of the group. .....
  • Clash of the red brigade
    • by M.G. Radhakrishnan
      A meeting of the state committee of the CPI(M) normally is as electrifying as Sunday morning mass at the nearby parish. However, it was a different sight last week when thousands of flag-holding workers converged for a mammoth public rally to mark the end of the four-day Kerala state conference at the rain-drenched Nehru Stadium in Kottayam-a prelude to the 19th party congress in March at Coimbatore. .....
  • Tactical retreat
    • by Subhash Mishra
      Mayawati shuns a surname but if she ever chooses to tag one, it could well be "unpredictable". On Monday last, she met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi after which she indicated that she has put her decision of withdrawal of support to the Congress-led Government at the Centre on hold. However, she is unlikely to stay quiet for long and may well renew her onslaught on the Congress soon enough. .....
  • Andhra replaces Bengal as Red hub
    • by The Times of India
      The Maoists may be striking with increasing impunity in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa but the party's top command is dominated by leaders from Andhra Pradesh, with half its politburo (PB) members coming from the state and as many as four of them from the outfit's old bastion, Karimnagar district. .....
  • Rebels turn sadists, kill & castrate cop
    • by The Times of India
      The Maoists' brutality peaked during their attack on Nayagarh on Friday night. They burnt one policeman alive, stabbed and shot hiding cops and castrated a constable. Rarely has such sadism been witnessed in the state. .....
  • Fundamentalism in US military?
    • by The Times of India
      Since his last combat deployment in Iraq, Jeremy Hall has had a rough time, getting shoved and threatened by his fellow soldiers. The trouble started there when he would not pray in the mess hall. .....
  • Mystery Factor Gives Ganges a Clean Reputation
    • by Julian Crandall Hollick
      Hindus have always believed that water from India's Ganges River has extraordinary powers. The Indian emperor Akbar called it the "water of immortality" and always traveled with a supply. The British East India Co. used only Ganges water on its ships during the three-month journey back to England, because it stayed "sweet and fresh." .....
  • Leopold Was Maut Ka Saudagar
    • by N.S. Rajaram
      Sixty years after Mahatma Gandhi fell to an assassin's bullet, it has come to light that the most illustrious bearer of the Gandhi name today accepted the Order of Leopold, instituted by the Belgian royal family. The name Leopold, King of the Belgians is synonymous with the worst excesses of European exploitation of Africa. Leopold, the king whose name the award carries was a slave merchant who rivals Hitler as a mass murderer. .....
  • Hyderabad: 14 suspected ISI agents held
    • by Rediff.com
      The Hyderabad task force police on Sunday arrested 14 people from Bangladesh, suspected to be Inter Services Intelligence agents, at the Secunderabad railway station. .....
  • Secularist assault on idea of India
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      The allusion is not to the Leader of Opposition LK Advani who was forthright in his condemnation of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader's publicity-seeking utterances that led to the death of one poor Bihari migrant. Nor can we fault Hindu hridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray for making it clear that the Indian nation must prevail over parochial interests. .....
  • Cops Arrest Sp Man, Face Of Violence
    • by Sachin Haralkar / Vikas Shrivastav
      Mehtab Aalam, the sight of whose blood-soaked face probably intensified the violent clashes between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Samajwadi Party workers, has been arrested. .....
  • Maoist menace spreads to urban areas
    • by Mateen Hafeez
      The Maoist menace is no longer confined to the jungles. Last year, India's financial capital got a Naxal scare. With the arrest of a few activists in August, the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) of Maharashtra police claimed to have busted a Maoist think tank, which was trying to indoctrinate and recruit people, and collecting funds for the organisation. .....
  • A Permanent 'Thorn' In India's Flesh!
    • by B. R. Haran
      The Congress President Mrs.Sonia had accepted the title 'Grant Officer of the Order of Leopold' from the King of Belgium in November 2006, which makes her eternally devoted to Belgium and its Monarchy, as per the statute of becoming a Member of the Association for the Order of Leopold. .....
  • SIMI held meeting in Western Ghats: Shakeel
    • by NewKerala.com
      Suspected terrorist Asif Mohammad's accomplice Shakeel Mali, who was arrested on Tuesday last, revealed that 32 activists of the banned Students Isslamic Movement of India (SIMI) had participated in its meeting at Castlerock on Goa-Karnataka border on the Western Ghats recently. .....
  • Caste Discrimination: Hindu Council UK Puts the Record Straight
    • by Hindu Council UK
      The Hindu Council UK (HCUK) has today released a revealing report on varnashram or the caste system, a subject HCUK says is much misunderstood by the British media, politicians and the public. "Caste has been the subject of ill-informed comment for too long," says HCUK General Secretary Anil Bhanot. .....
  • Not Muslim, only violent!
    • by Nandini Jawli
      The UK Government has drawn up controversial new guidelines on the "language of terrorism" to advise civil servants on how to talk about terrorism without causing offence to Muslims. .....
  • Banished Within & Without
    • by Taslima Nasreen
      Although I was not born an Indian, there is very little about my appearance, my tastes, my habits and my traditions to distinguish me from a daughter of the soil. My father was born before Partition; the strange history of this subcontinent made him a citizen of three states, his daughter a national of two. .....
  • First Blow to frauds of Sachar! Kudos to Ohriji and Patriotic Forum!
    • by Mohan Gupta
      PIL filed by Patriots' Forum in Delhi High Court against implementation of Sachar Report ( including Justice Sachar's blatant recourse to suppressio veri, suggestio falsi) was heard today by the Division Bench of Hon'ble Chief Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Ms. Reva Khetrapal. Senior Advocate Sri P.N. Lekhi appeared in behalf of Patriot's Forum, while Central Govt was represented by the Addl. Solicitor General, Sri Gopal Subramaniam. .....
  • April is the cruelest month…
    • by Mayank Jain
      Recently, I quizzed some students of journalism about the dates of the Ayodhya, Delhi, Bangalore and Varanasi terror attacks. Many of them replied rather vaguely. Contrast this with the American attitude. See how they converted '9/11' to an international brand name. Its very mention evokes images of suicide bombers, planes and Islamic terrorism. .....
  • Army turn to epics for ethics
    • by Rahul Singh
      The army has invoked the Mahabharata and the Vedas to check sliding morality and ethics in its ranks. An honour code circulated to soldiers across India quotes Bhishma's advice to the Pandavas, asking them to control passion for wealth, promotion and luxuries as these "frailties" erode leadership. .....
  • AP to give Christians subsidy to visit Israel
    • by The Times of India
      Always eager to offer sops to minorities, the Andhra Pradesh government of chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday decided to dole out subsidies, on the lines of the Haj scheme, for Christians who want to visit holy sites in Israel. .....
  • Yoga helps survivors of natural disasters
    • by C. Vidyashankar, MD
      A one-week yoga program reduced stress and anxiety among survivors of the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean islands of Andaman and Nicobar in December 2004, researchers from India report. .....
  • Leading Indians campaign for exiled writer
    • by Randeep Ramesh
      Leading figures from Indian literature, academia and the law announced a campaign last night to stop an exiled Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasrin, who has been accused of insulting Islam, from being expelled from India. .....
  • Leave Army alone
    • by The Pioneer
      For some time now strategic affairs 'experts' and their political mentors, known for their proximity to the Washington establishment, have been peddling the theory that India needs a technology-intensive 'lean-and-mean' Army, not a large force of 11 lakh soldiers and officers. On paper this sounds good. .....
  • Pampering Killers
    • by Joginder Singh
      The UPA Government has decided to provide a relief package to dependents of terrorists -- those men who fought against the integrity of India and were killed by the security forces in encounters in Jammu & Kashmir. They did nothing for the country except attempting to destabilise it and kill innocent civilians. .....
  • The Dangerous Faces Of Marxist Cultural Destruction
    • by Dr. Babu Suseelan
      Marxists and their cohorts are relatively clear what they want to achieve in India. They want the destruction of Hindu civilization and establishment of a proletariat Marxist state. For the last seventy five years, Marxists are working hard to realize their misguided and dangerous goals through positive sounding slogans such as "inclusion", "human rights", "feminist empowerment", "classless society", and "women's rights". .....
  • CPM fascist face exposed
    • by Dibyendu Guha
      On November 14, 2007 top ranking intellectuals, writers, play-wrights, poets and artists of Bengal like Mrinal Sen, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Joy Goswami, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Gautam Ghosh, Aparna Sen, Purnodas Baul, Anjan Datta and many other, marched in silent procession in Kolkata to protest against fascist type violent action in Nandigram by the armed cadre of the ruling CPM. .....
  • Hizbul militants on the run in south Kashmir
    • by The Indian Express
      With the killing of five Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants, including its two top com.ll1anders, followed by thy the arrest of another comman­der in south Kashmir, police and the Army on Saturday claimed that the militants are on the run after these successive operations. .....
  • Madrasah - An Islamic School To Learn 'Ignorance'
    • by Sujit Das
      Out of all the heinous crimes modern societies have ever witnessed, the worst one obviously is crime against children. The barbaric violent acts of brutality against children often leave scars in their soft minds, which often never heals in their lifetime. .....
  • Islamic parties fell prey to real issues
    • by Shobhan Saxena
      The Red Caps are back in the Frontier. In a remarkable display of resilience and commitment to its secular values, the Awami National Party (ANP), which bore the brunt of suicide bombers in the run up to the elections in the country's most volatile province bordering Afghanistan, swept to power in NWFP on Tuesday as it completely overwhelmed Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in its stronghold. .....
  • Sethu security threat: Expert
    • by The Pioneer
      Friday night's daring raid by Maoists on armouries and police establishments in Orissa, which resulted in the death of at least 14 policemen and a civilian, comes as yet another grim reminder that far Left extremism remains, to quote the Prime Minister, the biggest threat to our internal security. What makes the latest outrage particularly worrisome is that it occurred at Nayagarh, a district headquarters town, which is a short distance from Bhubaneswar. .....
  • Sethu security threat: Expert
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      Retired Naval Captain H. Balakrishnan on Saturday said the implementation of the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (SSCP) would pose a threat to the country's national security as maritime terrorism and sea piracy were getting inter-mingled. .....
  • Experts Ask Government To Come Clean On Sethusamudram
    • by News Post India
      Scientists and experts at a meet organised here Saturday urged the central government to table a white paper in parliament on the 'economic viability, environmental and ecological sustainability, engineering feasibility and ethical tenability' of the controversial Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (SSCP). .....
  • 'Sethu project unscientific'
    • by News Today
      A retired Naval Officer and Master Mariner for the Merchant Navy H Balakrishnan on Saturday said the implementation of the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (SSCP) was unscientific and would also pose a threat to country's national security as maritime terrorism and sea piracy were getting inter-mingled. .....
  • Banished Within & Without
    • by Taslima Nasreen
      Although I was not born an Indian, there is very little about my appearance, my tastes, my habits and my traditions to distinguish me from a daughter of the soil. My father was born before Partition; the strange history of this subcontinent made him a citizen of three states, his daughter a national of two. .....
  • Why am I afraid to be a Hindu
    • by Gayatri Chauhan
      In school we had to fill the first page of the school calendar which had a slot for religion. I wonder why I would hesitate to fill it in and say Hindu. .....
  • A Bridge Too Far
    • by The Times of India
      The Coast Guard chief has added a new twist to the Sethusamudram controversy. He thinks that the proposed shipping canal is vulnerable to terror strikes from non-state actors in the region. Recently, the naval chief was quoted as saying that the canal may be too small for large ships. The project has already attracted undue opposition from political parties, religious groups and environmentalists. So, is the canal project worth pursuing? .....
  • Foot soldiers of Jaipur
    • by Rohit Parihar
      It is probably the only city in the world to have lent its name to a prosthetic, but now limbs other than foot-like a Jaipur knee or wheelchair-may soon be associated with the pink city. .....
  • What It Means To Live Under The Airless Veil
    • by Balbir K. Punj
      Tennis prodigy and India's hope for the world tennis crown, Sania Mirza, says she won't be taking to the Indian tennis courts in the near future. Reason: she is "tired" of the constant criticism of her sports uniform and other off- and on-court behaviour by orthodox Muslims. In the follow-up, several newspapers have lambasted this orthodoxy and asked the liberals why they were so silent. .....
  • Handicaps No Bar
    • by Jaideep Mazumdar and Ganesh Prasad Chowrasia
      With a family of eight to look after, Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) greens-keeper Ganesh Prasad Chowrasia could scarcely afford the chicken or mutton dishes his youngest son was so fond of. Often, disappointed with a vegetarian meal, the diminutive, soft-spoken kid would stomp off from his dad's cramped, two-roomed quarters off RCGC's ninth green to pursue his only passion: golf. .....
  • EC rift over Sonia now out in open
    • by Akshaya Mukul
      Always known in the corridors of power, differences in the Election Commission - among Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy and the two ECs Navin Chawla and SY Qureishi - have come out in the open on the issue of serving notice to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on a complaint seeking her disqualification as MP for accepting a Belgian honour. .....
  • Stop the Heckling
    • by The Times of India
      It is not surprising that China had unhappy words to say about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh. After all, the Chinese are master hecklers, shooting off statements meant to rile India even as they engage in formal talks to supposedly resolve the boundary dispute. .....
  • Activists need urgent rehab
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Viewers of English-language TV news channels will have noticed the frequency with which a mysterious community called "activists" has begun popping up. On subjects as diverse as education, health, industrialisation and religion, the utterances of politicians, officials, corporates and the man in the street are invariably countered with views of "activists" presumed to have profound expertise on all subjects. .....
  • Flawed job scheme
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      When the Communist states of Eastern Europe collapsed in the early-1990s, there were anxious debates in Marxist circles over what had gone wrong. The common sense explanation was pretty simple: the dictatorship of the party was tyrannical, opaque, excessively bureaucratic and plain inefficient. The system violated human nature. For those who felt history was on their side, the collapse lent itself to a curious explanation. The socialist bloc, they argued, had crumbled because it had deviated from the true path. .....
  • Muslim Bludgeons, Strangles, Stabs, and Burns Girlfriend's Family
    • by Prophet of Doom
      Iftekhar Murtaza, a 22-year-old American Muslim man living in Southern California was arrested in Phoenix Airport for bludgeoning, stabbing, strangling, and burning Leela, Karishma, and Jayprakash Dhanak. These three victims were the mother, sister, and father of his girlfriend, Shayona Dhanak. .....
  • BJP must not dither
    • by Prafull Goradia
      After the victory in the Gujarat Assembly election, it is time for the BJP to shed its inability to look beyond the NDA. It's time to give up the posture that the party means many things to many people. .....
  • Archbishop in row over Sharia
    • by Hasan Suroor
      In a rare show of unity against attempts to interfere with Britain's secular laws, Muslim groups on Friday joined Ministers, MPs and civil rights groups to criticise Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for suggesting that elements of Sharia should be incorporated into British law as a mark of religious and cultural "accommodation" with the country's 1.6 million Muslims. .....
  • In progressive's paradise: Nandigram II
    • by Ashok Ghosh
      To many, it may sound dichotomous to press for a programme and then to dump it unceremoniously, but to a Leftist it should appear mischievous. The failure of the Left Front Government to implement NREG after fighting hard for it to be incorporated in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is clear manifestation of hypocrisy practiced by some of the constituents of the ruling coalition in West Bengal for quite some time now. .....
  • A bend in the ganges
    • by Manohar Malgonkar
      A Bend in the ganges is an epic saga of the decade leading to partition and the forces which engineered its bloody consummation plunging Modern India into its darkest hour; where over 3 million people died, over a million women were raped, abducted and mutilated, and several million rendered helpless refugees, left to fend for themselves in the quagmire of post partition existence teeming with poverty, disease and death. .....
  • Killing Canadians 'best way': student
    • by Stewart Bell
      A Toronto-area man has been posting messages on the Internet supporting attacks against Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil, drawing the attention of RCMP national security investigators. .....
  • Sanskrit gets a new lease of life in US
    • by Suman Guha Mozumder
      It would seem Sanskrit has become the flavor of the month in some parts of the United States. Last week, a two-day Sanskrit seminar, the first of its kind in Nevada, concluded in Reno with chanting of Sanskrit shlokas (verses) by Andrea Forman, lead singer of Shanti Shanti, the only Sanskrit rock band in the world. .....
  • CPI decries Cong move to save Chawla
    • by The Pioneer
      The Government's controversial move to amend the Constitution to bring parity among the three Election Commissioners (ECs) has been sharply criticised by the CPI. .....
  • 'Hinduism facing challenge of conversion'
    • by The New Indian Express
      Head of US-based Siva Ashramam Sadguru Bodhinatha Veylan Swamigal has said that Hinduism is facing the challenge of unethical conversion by other faiths. .....
  • NHRC order on Nandigram violence by CPM
    • by CPMIndia.blogspot.com
      The Government of West Bengal proposed to set up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and a chemical hub in an area covering around 10,000 acres in Nandigram Block-1 and for that purpose it proposed to acquire land. On 28th December, 2006 Haldia Development Authority circulated an informal notice showing the likely location of the project. The local people resented the proposal for acquisition of land. .....
  • Empire city
    • by Piyush Roy
      Built on the right bank of the river Shipra, Ujjain has seen the rise and fall of many kingdoms and rulers-from Vikramaditya to emperor Ashok and Iltutmish. Now the city sprawls on both sides of the river like any other Indian small town, its garish billboards grinning at squat concrete houses. .....
  • Look, who's on a mission to clean Indrayani river in Alandi
    • by Manoj More
      Every Thursday, Indrayani river that flows through the temple town of Alandi breathes easy. Do not mistake, it's not the Alandi Municipal Council that is showing concern for the river which has earned the tag of highly polluted river in Pune. Neither are residents in Alandi coming forward to bail out the river, whose woes stem not only from official apathy but from people's beliefs as well. .....
  • The Great Indian Museum Scam
    • by Subrata Nagchoudhury
      A well-networked cartel at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, one of the biggest repositories of the country's cultural and historical heritage, has been siphoning off crores of rupees under the pretext of preserving priceless artifacts, a probe has found. .....
  • In Ayodhya what is the business of army officers of Islamic countries?
    • by Organiser
      I have received information from Ayodhya today that some Army and Air Force officers belonging to various countries visited the Ramjanmabhoomi at about 4.00 pm for inspection. The names, which I came to know, included Shri Suhail Abbas (Brigadier of Bangladesh Army), Mohammed Ibrahim (Afghanistan), Mohd. Abdul Wasim (Mangolia) and T.K. Pillai (Australia). .....
  • Government accused of failing British Hindus
    • by Ruth Gledhill
      Britain's Hindu community, known for its peaceable love of sacred cows, for its annual Diwali festival of light and its opposition to conflict, has risen up in unprecedented anger against the Government led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. .....
  • US loves tyrants
    • by Claude Arpi
      The US Administration is untiring in preaching democracy and human rights to others. But it warmly embraces dictators who loathe democracy and trample on human rights. We are seeing this in Pakistan. We saw it in Indonesia during Suharto's brutal excesses. .....
  • Church in a State
    • by The Times
      Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has made admirable efforts to engage constructively with Islam and its clerics. His sensible conversations about the Muslim world stand in welcome contrast to the attitude of some of his colleagues, notably the Bishop of Rochester, whose remarks last month about unspecified "no-go areas" for non-Muslims were unnecessarily provocative. .....
  • Mind Set: A tribute to Maharishi
    • by The Times of India
      It was in 1985, two years after a trip to Rishikesh, that I got an opportunity to meet Maharashi. A young psychologist at Harvard, who was doing a study on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for older people, told me about Maharishi's visit to America for a conference after several years. My wife, Rita and I decided to attend it. .....
  • BMS man butchered
    • by Organiser
      Continuing its murderous orgy against the Sangh Parivar, CPM goons attacked and butchered V.K. Shaju, Zonal Joint Secretary of BMS and a worker at the Kerala Feeds Factory at Kallettinkara, near Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district on February 12 in broad daylight at 7.30 am. .....
  • CPM hobnobbing with terrorists
    • by S. Chandrasekhar
      The CPM which rode into power by getting the support of fringe terrorist outfits like PDP, NDF, SIMI, Kanthapuram Musliar, Jamaat-E-Islami etc is toeing the same line, despite strong opposition from its predominantly Hindu support base. .....
  • Civil rights groups should not defend Naxalites
    • by Deepak Kumar Rath
      The Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini organised a national seminar in New Delhi on February 14, 2007 on "Innovative Strategies to Counter Naxalism: Experiment of Salva Judum." The seminar was held in four different sessions throughout the day which had eminent speakers drawn from a wide spectrum of on-field workers to policymakers to law enforcers. .....
  • Himachal dalits rebuke fake healers
    • by Ajay Srivastava
      It is tale of crafty deception. A hapless Dalit widow was lured by those who are seen as living symbol of mercy and faith in the society. Her cries have exposed the demon beneath the white cloak. She not only lost her beloved grandson, who was a serious patient of brain tumor and the lone bread winner for the family of fifteen, but also stripped of her faith in the hope that one day he will come back from jaws of death by prayers as she was allured. .....
  • Lest we forget
    • by Neelesh Misra
      A few months ago, I was having a conversation with someone who had spent a sleepless night during the 1999 Christmas vacations, guiding the government's response during the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane. As he looked back, I asked him, what were the thoughts that ran through his mind? "It has to do with us as a nation," he said. "We have made a fine art out of not remembering. Look at the Israelis - would they have ever forgotten something like this?" .....
  • Belgian award for Sonia puts EC in a spot
    • by Bhupendra Chaubey
      The Chief Election Commissioner, N Gopalaswamy and his two fellow Election Commissioners - Navin Chawla and Dr S Y Quraishi - is the troika responsible for maintaining the spirit of unity and democracy in India. .....
  • Shilpa Shetty trumps Arunachal again
    • by Arun Shourie
      We were all at the weekly meeting of the BJP members of Parliament. L.K. Advani was presiding. Two of our colleagues represent Arunachal in the Lok Sabha - Tapir Gao and Kiren Rijiju. They drew attention to the fact that Chinese incursions into Arunachal were not just continuing - these were becoming more frequent and the Chinese soldiers were coming in deeper into our territory. .....
  • Temple administration not government's job: Sri Sri
    • by Rediff.com
      Opposing any move towards acquisition of temples by a government, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar has said that if such a step was indispensable, it must not apply only to places of worship of any one religion. .....
  • Jihadi Terror Blanket Over South India
    • by B.R.Haran
      The recent report in a section of media on the unearthing of a "Jihadi Training Camp" in the jungles of Dharwad & Uthara Kannada districts of Karnataka might have been a shocking surprise to the people of India in general and the people of South India in particular. But, for those who have been closely watching and analyzing the concept of Jihad and the spread & growth of Islamic Terrorism in India, it is not at all a surprise and seems to be only the tip of the iceberg. .....
  • Sleeping with Deadly Jihadi Terrorists
    • by Dr. Babu Suseelan
      The detection of Pakistan ISI Jihadi terrorism training camp in the deep forest of Karnataka is nothing new. It is as old as Islamic invasion of India. The irrational obsession of Muslims to take over India by the Islamic sword is nothing new .For centuries; Muslims have shown obsessive ferocity to destroy Hindu civilization and India by ideological, military and other violent means. .....
  • Flawed job scheme
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      When the Communist states of Eastern Europe collapsed in the early-1990s, there were anxious debates in Marxist circles over what had gone wrong. The common sense explanation was pretty simple: the dictatorship of the party was tyrannical, opaque, excessively bureaucratic and plain inefficient. The system violated human nature. For those who felt history was on their side, the collapse lent itself to a curious explanation. .....
  • A tribute to Maharishi
    • by Deepak Chopra
      It was in 1985, two years after a trip to Rishikesh, that I got an opportunity to meet Maharashi. A young psychologist at Harvard, who was doing a study on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for older people, told me about Maharishi's visit to America for a conference after several years. My wife, Rita and I decided to attend it. .....
  • Abu Hamza pulled the trigger at IISc: Police
    • by The Times of India
      Two years after the IISc terror strike, the Karnataka police claim to have got the name of the shooter, Abu Hamza, a prime LeT operative. DGP K R Srinivasan announced this after Sabauddin, one of the six ultras held in UP on Sunday, confessed to this. .....
  • 'Dead ships' a security threat too?
    • by Nitin Sethi
      The 'dead ships' coming to India under flags of convenience are not only an environmental threat but also pose a threat to India's maritime security. A confidential report of the naval intelligence has pointed out that the D-gang is involved in most of the deals going around in the shipbreaking business. .....
  • Maya threatens to pull plug on govt
    • by Suchandana Gupta
      Within a month of issuing an ultimatum to the UPA government of withdrawing the BSP's support to the Centre, UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday repeated her threat-this time on grounds that Delhi is planning to reopen the Taj Corridor case against her. She had earlier said the BSP could withdraw support to the UPA anytime after January 15, which was her birthday. .....
  • Woman served talaq notice alleges dowry harassment
    • by Mateen Hafeez
      Even as senior officials say police stations have been told to register FIRs immediately, a pregnant woman had to wait for a month to lodge a dowry case against her husband, who had earlier sent her a talaq notice. .....
  • LeT plot to blow up BSE foiled
    • by The Time of India
      In a dramatic breakthrough in investigations into the terror attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, the UP special task force (STF) on Sunday arrested six alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, three of whom were bound for Mumbai on Sunday morning to carry out strikes on key installations in India's financial capital. .....
  • Charges framed against Imam of Haj house masjid
    • by Menaka Rao
      A Sewri fast-track court on Thursday framed charges against the Maulana Ghulam Yahya, the Imam of Haj house masjid on the charge of harbouring three alleged Kashmiri militants in 2006. The Imam, however, denied all charges. .....
  • Author's visa to expire in 8 days
    • by The Times of India
      With just eight days left for the expiry of her visa, a worried Taslima Nasreen hoped that India will not "turn its back'' on her and grant extension for her to stay on. .....
  • Left lands a scam
    • by M.G. Radhakrishnan
      The Left, that squirms every time its opponents mention the public sector, finds itself in an unenviable situation over the sale of PSU land to Mumbai-based Blue Star Realtors, promoted by Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd, for building a Rs 4,000 crore Cyber City in Kochi. .....
  • Back to square one
    • by Saurabh Shukla
      With the Indo-Pakistan peace process grinding to a halt following political instability in Pakistan, the incremental gains of the composite dialogue process, to discuss crossborder terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir and other issues, seem to be lost and the trust deficit is widening with Pakistan's vitriolic anti-India propaganda on the rise. .....
  • Not quite working
    • by Subhash Mishra
      Senior Congress leaders in Uttar Pradesh are a worried lot. They say the people in the state may have brought BSP's Mayawati back in power with an absolute majority but there is a lot which the Opposition can use to its advantage. .....
  • Building knowledge blocks
    • by Ramesh Vinayak
      Against the backdrop of a smoke-billowing chimney of a brick kiln and under a tin-roofed shed stuffed with rows of freshly-molded bricks, a class is in session. .....
  • Murkier and Murkier
    • by KA Shaji
      Two senior ministers of the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, Elamarom Kareem of the CPM and KP Rajendran of the CPI, have come under the scanner for their alleged role in the land scam involving property of the public sector Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT). The land at Kalamassery near Kochi had been given to HMT years ago by the state government for setting up manufacturing units. .....
  • Green card holders
    • by Stephen David
      The R.K. Pachauris and Al Gores of the world can rejoice. The planet is neither going into meltdown nor is it going to be buried in plastic. Not till there are villages like Ira around. This village of 1,300 families in Bantwal taluk of Mangalore has been inspired by a revolutionary self-help movement called Apna Desh to take on leadership role and to keep it free of plastic waste. .....
  • A Secret Sortie
    • by Sheela Reddy
      At 2.30 am on January 27, alone in the AIIMS coronary care unit, her wrists strapped to tubes of running saline and life-saving medicines, watching with the expert eye of a former medico as the monitor showed her ECG, pulse and blood pressure dance and soar alarmingly, Taslima Nasreen had only one coherent thought. "If I survive this night," she told herself as she felt her body going numb and feather-light, "I will talk to my friend, Pranab Mukherjee...perhaps he'll see how this tension is killing me and send me back home to Calcutta." .....
  • Hijacking of National Self-respect
    • by Avinash Dharmadhikari
      Umpires hijacked the Sydney cricket match. The arrogant and threatening players of Australia corroborated that plan and its execution. Moreover, they kidnapped the presence of Harbhajan Singh who was consistently 'capturing' the wicket of Ricky Ponting. The religious Cricket lovers spread across India were bound to be dreadfully furious at this. .....
  • Dealing with terrorism
    • by G. Parthasarathy
      Dr Manmohan Singh astonished the country after a meeting with President Musharraf in Havana in September 2006, when he announced that like India, Pakistan was also a "victim" of terrorism. He then proceeded to tell his baffled countrymen and the world at large that the terrorist violence in India was not being perpetrated by the ISI, but by "autonomous jihadi groups". .....
  • 400 Nepali Maoists infiltrate to India
    • by Organiser
      After facing border disputes with China and Pakistan India may now face similar problem from Nepal where the Maoists have recently rejoined the Girija Prasad Koirala government. Around 400 Maoists from Nepal recently crossed over the porous Indo-Nepal border touching Uttarakhand to lay claim on some of the portions falling in the "No man's land". .....
  • Harijans asked to unite for basic rights
    • by Kushtia
      Speakers at a national convention yesterday urged the Harijan community to be united and raise their voice for their constitutional rights, which they are denied in the society for a long time. .....
  • Bangalore: MBBS students held for terror links
    • by Rediff.com
      Former deputy mayor of Belgaum city and nine medical were detained for alleged links with outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and suspected militant Mohammed Asif who is in police custody. .....
  • Muslim convert slurs Bali victims
    • by Allard
      Rabiah Hutchinson, the Mudgee-born grandmother accused of being the "grand dame" of extremist jihadis in Australia, says she has limited sympathy for the victims of the Bali bombings because those holidaying on the Indonesian island engaged in pedophilia and drug taking. .....
  • The Down Syndrome Bombers: Terrorism Sinks to New Low
    • by Aaron Hanscom
      Just when suicide attacks stopped shocking the world came the news thatBaghdad bombings were committed by two Down syndrome women wired toexplode. Aaron Hanscom wonders if there could be any act more depravedthan turning a mentally disabled person into a human bomb. The mosthorrific part: it's becoming a trend. .....
  • Can we trust China?
    • by M.V. Kamath
      Irrespective of the end results of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing, the intriguing question remains: can we trust China? Are we being take for another ride? According to a paper prepared by the American CIA in mid-1963 recently released, the Chinese duped Jawaharlal Nehru by its guile over the Sino-Indian border row that led to a war in 1962. Nehru turned out to be naïve leader, easily taken in by Chinese pretensions of friendship. .....
  • Europeans Think Islam Is Dangerous
    • by Jason Groves
      An "overwhelming majority" of Europeans believe immigration from Islamic countries is a threat to their traditional way of life, a survey revealed last night. .....
  • 50% reservation for minorities in KMDA's Baishnabghata flats
    • by The Statesman
      Minorities in the state will have a fifty per cent reservation in the 296 flats made by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), that are coming up in the Baishnabghata-Patuli area. The state minister for urban development and municipal affairs Mr Ashok Bhattacharya in this regard today made an announcement. .....
  • Border Trouble
    • by Nava Thakuria
      The land of armed movements, set on fire by the anti-New Delhi militias, has woken up to a new threat from religious fundamentalists fuelled by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to make Northeast India a volatile region in the continent. .....
  • Kashmir to Kerala
    • by The Pioneer
      Kerala's Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan appears to be unfazed by the real extent of the threat posed by Hizb-ul Mujahideen operatives in the State. Or else he would not have suggested that extremists are travelling to God's Own Country for rest and recreation. The Minister would do well to reconsider his views and accept the ground reality in Kerala, with its Islamist organisations like NDF and PDP, that affords ISI-trained terror operatives from Jammu & Kashmir to park themselves without being detected. .....
  • Foul play
    • by Diana West
      The year is 1942. The place, the Pentagon. A Berlin-born aide to the U.S. deputy secretary of defense has learned that a military intelligence officer has not only read Hitler's Mein Kampf, but is lecturing senior officers about Hitler's heretofore unexamined goals of world domination. .....
  • Islamic Iconoclasm in Kashmir: Motives and Magnitude
    • by Rashneek Kher
      Iconoclasm and religious persecution of faiths alien to the king's faith has been a norm said one of my Marxist friends. He didn't stop there. He went on to name various Hindu, Naga, Buddhist & Huna kings [Kalhana's Rajatarangi (The River of Kings)] in the Pre-Islamic period who had resorted to iconoclasm and religious persecution of faiths other than theirs. .....
  • Lord Rama: Fact or Fiction
    • by Stephen Knapp
      As of late, in the year 2007, the idea of whether Lord Rama exists or not has been called into question, by no less than some of the politicians in India. So it is a wonder how such persons can be accepted as leaders of the people of India who should be concerned with preserving and protecting the culture of the country. .....
  • Conversion, foreign-funded NGOs caus riot
    • by The Pioneer
      Demanding tough measures to regulate activities of foreign funded NGOs operating in riot-hit Kandhamal district, VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati on Saturday called for an open debate on conversion, terming it as the 'root cause' of unrest in the tribal dominated areas. .....
  • Mega crimes and Muslim apology
    • by Prafull Goradia
      In the course of the Moplah riot of 1921 anything was practised from arson to conversion to pregnant women being cut into pieces with unborn babies protruding from the mothers' corpses. Smt Annie Besant, the Irish lady, and the 1913 president of the Congress, after her visit to Malabar, exhorted Gandhiji to see for himself the ghastly horrors. .....
  • Conversion Destroys Religious Harmony
    • by Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
      "There are Christian theologians who feel the conversion of others is not any more the business of the Church." This is indeed an encouraging statement from Dr Hans Ucko, Head of the Committee on Inter-religious Dialogue and Cooperation of the World Council of Churches, a powerful body that has over 350 member churches. .....
  • Crucifying Morality
    • by T R Jawahar
      'Convert me if you can', challenged Mahatma Gandhi, when confronted by a missionary who was quite incensed by the great man's strident opposition to conversions. And missionaries being what they are, they must have certainly tried. But we all know that Mohandas Gandhi did not become Malcolm Gandhi. .....
  • Bangladeshi Islamist leaders charged in 1971 killings
    • by Irish Sun
      The chief of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), his political aides and three Pakistani nationals have been accused of killing 345 people in April 1971, when resistance to the Pakistan Army's crackdown in the then East Pakistan was building up. .....
  • No visa? Modi to go 'live' for US audience
    • by S Rajagopalan
      Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was denied a US visa three years ago, will have a 'live' session with his vast constituency of Indian American supporters packing a New Jersey venue on February 1. .....
  • Christopher Columbus
    • by www.geocities.com/RainForest
      Although best known today as "discoverer" of lands that had been discovered by Native Americans thousands of years before, it was already Columbus who introduced all those measures generally attributed to later conquistadors; including the enslavement of Indians and hunting them down with large packs of dogs. .....
  • Terrorists? Not us says the London School of Islamics
    • by Alan Caruba
      Since so few of us have any contact with Muslims, it behooves us to try to gain an insight into the minds of those living in the West. Common to the culture of the Middle East is the abject refusal to take any responsibility for anything done in the name of Islam. .....
  • Bishop attacked in Nellai church
    • by V Krithiga
      A long standing factional rivalry in the Tirunelveli diocese of Church of South India came to a head on Tuesday when Bishop Rev S Jayapaul David was attacked by a group at Cathedral Church in Palayamkottai. .....
  • A Matter of Economics So the wheat sell high
    • by R. Balashankar
      Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has shown a way. He took urbanisation to villages and not vice versa. By taking irrigation, electricity, better roads and connectivity Modi changed the village landscape. Urbanised it. .....
  • Ex-Pak generals slam Musharraf's Kashmir policy
    • by Rediff.com
      Former Pakistani Generals, including ex-army chief Mirza Aslam Beg, have criticised President Pervez Musharraf's handling of the Kashmir problem and said there could be no long-term friendship with India unless the issue is resolved. .....
  • Islam vs. Islam
    • by Prafull Goradia
      The assassination of Banazir Bhutto is yet another episode in the civil war between the comprehensive Islamists and the civil Muslims in Pakistan. .....
  • Sanskrit gets a new lease of life in US
    • by Suman Guha Mozumder
      It would seem Sanskrit has become the flavor of the month in some parts of the United States. Last week, a two-day Sanskrit seminar, the first of its kind in Nevada, concluded in Reno with chanting of Sanskrit shlokas (verses) by Andrea Forman, lead singer of Shanti Shanti, the only Sanskrit rock band in the world. .....
  • Stretching across cultures
    • by William Porter
      I spent Sunday morning watching 90 yoga devotees bending themselves into shapes so feline that I pulled three muscles and jammed a knee just watching. .....
  • Soaring spirit
    • by Benoy K. Behl
      The rock-cut caves of India are one of the most magnificent traditions in art. In ancient times, palaces of kings and buildings made in the service of ephemeral personalities were made of perishable materials such as wood. That which was made for the Eternal within us, to aid us on our journey towards self-realisation, was carved out of the heart of the mountain. .....
  • Kashmir to Kerala
    • by The Pioneer
      Kerala's Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan appears to be unfazed by the real extent of the threat posed by Hizb-ul Mujahideen operatives in the State. Or else he would not have suggested that extremists are travelling to God's Own Country for rest and recreation. The Minister would do well to reconsider his views and accept the ground reality in Kerala, with its Islamist organisations like NDF and PDP that affords ISI-trained terror operatives from Jammu & Kashmir to park themselves without being detected. .....
  • 24 x 7 TV purveys misinformation
    • by Indulata Das
      Every profession has certain responsibilities. In the case of mass media, these are multiplied, because they shoulder the responsibility of unfolding the truth. Hence their version has to be impartial, and unbiased. The truth should also be seen from the angle of one's own country and culture, and not from that of an alien. .....
  • PM daughter in Ramayan row
    • by The Telegraph
      Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayavati has asked the Prime Minister to ban a text recommended for Delhi University history students that allegedly contains objectionable references to characters in the Ramayan. .....
  • Who is a secularist?
    • by Mahesh Jethmalani
      Modi's stunning success in the recent elections has left the entire secular establishment - read politicians, the media and activists - distraught. While a magnanimous minority of Modi's detractors attributes his success to his charismatic leadership and the success of the bijli, sadak, paani programme, the majority believes that it is the result of acute communal polarisation by Modi within the state. .....
  • Commentary: Bhutto failed to modernize Pakistan
    • by Irshad Manji
      In the days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it will be tempting to reach two hasty conclusions: that she was Pakistan's last great hope and that her geo-politically crucial country has revealed itself to be inherently hopeless. .....
  • Muslim Responses to Unpleasant Islamic Facts
    • by Kaktuzkid
      Accuse the person of lying and ignorance. Tell him/her to read "authentic" Muslim websites and texts. Say that critics of Islam are "so-called" experts. Say that once a person "learns" about the "real" Islam, he/she will understand how beautiful and peaceful it is. .....
  • BJP leader killed in southern Tamil Nadu
    • by NewKerala.com
      A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Tamil Nadu was found hacked to death here, leading to tension in this volatile area with party workers raising slogans against minorities at his funeral Tuesday. .....
  • BJP attacks Govt move to equate ECs with CEC
    • by Free Press Journal
      Attacking the Centre's reported move to amend the Constitution to equate the Election Commissioners with the CEC, the BJP on Sunday asked the Left parties to clarify whether or not they would "blindly support the constitutionally inappropriate action". .....
  • Over 10,000 villagers throng Palani temple
    • by The Hindu
      Even as the 10-day 'Thai Poosam' festival was over with float festival (Theppa Ther) on Friday, it would informally come to an end only after the visit of a large number pilgrims from Edapadi and nearby villages in Salem district to the hill temple. .....
  • Northeast defies militants' diktat to observe R Day
    • by Nava Thakuria
      Notwithstanding a regular ban on celebration of India's Independence and Republic Days by outlawed militant outfits as a mark of their protest against New Delhi for years, country's trouble torn northeastern area observed it with utmost conviction. .....
  • Why Godse killed Gandhi
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      Sixty years after the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a 'mahatma' to many but really a cunning politician who had mastered the art of manipulating the Indian National Congress and offering simplistic solutions to the most complex problems, apart from coercing others to toe his line by abandoning food, the story of his murder continues to elicit both curiosity and passion. .....
  • Malaysia's Hindus show political muscle
    • by Baradan Kuppusamy
      A new political force - right wing Hindu activism - has strongly emerged in multi-ethnic Malaysia, adding volatility in an election year to the country's already religiously charged political arena dominated by the majority Malay Muslims. Across the country, ethnic Indians, who make up about 8% of the country's 26 million people, are mobilizing to protest against alleged socio-economic neglect and discrimination in employment, education and business at the hands of the ethnic Malay majority. .....
  • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies
    • by Mike Corder
      Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old. .....
  • Centre asks for third extension in SC
    • by Organiser
      After the Navy chief, the Director-General of Coast Guards has expressed serious reservation on the viability of the controversial Sethusamudram project. The Ram Sethu Raksha Samiti had in the last one year, agitating for the protection of the ancient most monument of Hindu faith, raised well-documented extensive logistical objections on the project. It was proved that the project is a navigational disaster, that it is unviable and an ecological outrage. .....
  • Guilty of treason
    • by Bishwadeep Ghosh
      For the first time, Islamists picked up in Uttar Pradesh have been successfully prosecuted in a fast track court. Five fanatics, including one from West Bengal, who had conspired to carry out bombings in Lucknow, have been sentenced to life imprisonment for waging war against the state .....
  • Andhra Muslims get job quota, courts cry foul
    • by Shaik Ahmed Ali
      Despite ongoing legal battles, Andhra Pradesh has started implementing 4 per cent quota for Muslims in government jobs. The state government, on Saturday, handed letters to 10 Muslim candidates appointing them as engineers in the Energy Department. .....
  • Malafide Move
    • by Free Press Journal
      The reported move to amend the law only to protect the controversial Election Commissioner Navin Chawla is malafide. It must be nipped in the bud. The Prime Minister had earlier abdicated his responsibility when he allowed the Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to enact a law aimed only at the dismissal of Dr. P. Venugopal, the widely-respected Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. .....
  • Hubli is hub of terror in South
    • by PT Bopanna
      The arrest of a Pakistan-trained suspected hard-core terrorist recently by Karnataka Police at Davanagere has brought to light the fact that the terrorist menace has spread its tentacles to the backward northern Karnataka region. .....
  • Chawla episode puts Left again on trial
    • by The Pioneer
      The BJP has slammed the reported move by the UPA Government to amend the Constitution to strip the Chief Election Commissioner of power to recommend the removal of other commission members, saying it was a politically motivated exercise to preempt action against Election Commissioner Navin Chawla. .....
  • Hampi cries for conservation
    • by Gouri Satya
      A distance of just 32-km, from Toranagallu to Hampi, takes an hour and a half. This is testimony enough to the infrastructure in this part of the country. .....
  • The mystery of Sethusamudram affidavit unravelled
    • by V.Venkatesan
      Everyone knows how the Union of India had to withdraw its own affidavit in the Sethusamudram case in the Supreme Court, as the Government felt embarrassed by Paragraph 20 of the affidavit, which averred that there is no scientific basis to the claim that the Adam's Bridge was a man-made structure, and that the epic Ramayan, which the petitioner cited in support of his claim, was just a mythology. .....
  • Malaysia's "Moderate" Islam Means Racism and Oppression
    • by Adrian Morgan
      In April last year, I wrote about the totalitarian aspects of Malaysia's society. Since that time, the situations described then have been repeated and appear to have worsened. General elections were officially due to take place in 2009, but last month, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi suggested he would be bringing these elections forward. The elections may take place as early as March this year. .....
  • Bengal film industry falls prey to extortionists
    • by Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri
      The film industry in Kolkata - better known as Tollywood as all its studios are located in a place called Tollygunj - is gradually falling prey to the menace of extortion, which has become a common problem for Bollywood personalities. .....
  • Sabotage alert for forces
    • by Bhavna Vij-Aurora
      The home ministry has asked all security establishments to watch out for possible infiltration of their ranks by terrorists or their sympathisers. .....
  • Camping in Karnataka
    • by The Pioneer
      Islamist terror, spreading its tentacles steadily across India, had crossed the Vindhyas some years ago. Now it seems deeply entrenched in Karnataka. It is disquieting but not surprising that a jihadi terrorist training camp has been detected right under the nose of the authorities, and for the first time, in southern India. .....
  • Militant reveals plans to trigger explosions in Karnataka, Goa
    • by The Hindustan Times
      A suspected militant arrested last month has told police that he was to carry out bomb blasts in 11 places in Karnataka and Goa, including IT campuses and the ISKCON temple, but could not do so as RDX from Pakistan failed to reach him. .....
  • The growing threat of Naxalism
    • by Ranjit Singh Ghuman
      Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing the chief ministers' meeting on internal security in New Delhi on December 20, 2007, underlined that left-wing extremism (Naxalism) is the single biggest challenge to the Indian state. He emphasised that "we need to cripple the hold of the Naxalite forces with all the means at our command" and urged the chief ministers that precise and actionable intelligence was the key to fight the Naxals. .....
  • Merchants who serve secularism
    • by S.Gurumurthy
      "Narendra Modi's stunning victory will change Indian politics decisively, perhaps dramatically, possibly desperately." "In Modi, the BJP has discovered" that "it can win a majority on its own". "Of course, Advani will continue as its prime ministerial candidate, but Modi is the future." .....
  • She fights, she suffers
    • by Soma Mitra
      'Peace' may have returned to Nandigram… but for the women whose lives are shattered by the land clashes, the fight for justice has just begun. .....
  • Shoaib Malik in knotty affair over Indian 'bride'
    • by The Indian Express
      The father of a Hyderabadi girl whose love story involving Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik went sour contested his claim that the couple did not enter into a 'nikah' and pressed the player to give a "formal divorce." .....
  • Islamic terrorists planned blasts in Goa
    • by K. Srinivas Reddy
      Islamic fundamentalists planned serial blasts on the Goa beaches, interrogation of Hyderabad resident Raziuddin Nasir has revealed. .....
  • Sethu project is a security threat: Coast Guard DG
    • by The Pioneer
      Adding fuel to the Ram Setu controversy, Director-General of Indian Coast Guard has cautioned that the Sethusamudram project poses a national security hazard and also conveyed his concern over the project to the Government. .....
  • Common man campaigner
    • by Satarupa Bhattacharjya
      Every Wednesday evening C.M. Ganga Ram rides his bicycle laden with snacks from his home in west Delhi to the India Today office at the city centre. Selling packets of small eats to staffers fetches him Rs 200 on a good day. At 73, Ganga Ram is your anonymous vendor, but a common man with an uncommon past. .....
  • A Few Good Women
    • by Stephen David
      Illegal sand quarrying, bogus ration cards or inter-caste clashes, nine female civil servants in the state brave all odds to weed out corruption and bring reforms in the district of Mandya .....
  • The truth about Sethu Samudram
    • by M V Kamath
      The truth about Sethu Samudram Writing in Frontline (15 October), one Mr D Ramachandran reveals some extremely important facts that merit attention. In the first place, he states that the Ram Sethu 'is a discontinuous chain of sandbars dotting a 30 km stretch in the East-West direction between the Palk Day and the Gulf of Mannar'. .....
  • Not Gandhian, or is it?
    • by Ramesh N Rao
      Mahatma Gandhi sired four sons, and his family history has become as rich and complex as any fable in Hindu mythology and may be more colourful and mixed than any post-modernist parable. .....
  • Antiquity of Ramayan verified
    • by Sri Nandanandana Das
      As of late, in the year 2007, the idea of whether Lord Rama exists or not has been called into question, by no less than some of the politicians in India. So it is a wonder how such persons can be accepted as leaders of the people of India who should be concerned with preserving and protecting the culture of the country. .....
  • No definite view on Sethu without any survey: Soni
    • by The Hindu
      In a move that could put the controversial Sethusamudram project in cold storage, Culture Minister Ambika Soni on Thursday said the ASI could not give a definite view on the project without undertaking some kind of survey. .....
  • Ethnic anger on the rise in Malaysia
    • by Thomas Fuller
      The customers of Malaysian Indian Casket, a small shop on the outskirts of this modern and cosmopolitan city, come in all different sizes: standard coffins clutter the entrance, child-size boxes are stacked high on the shelves and extra-large models, those for the tallest of the deceased, are stored in the back. .....
  • Indian mutiny
    • by Financial Express
      Some devotees had been fasting for weeks and shaved their heads. The most zealous pierced their cheeks with skewers or attached large wooden icons to their bodies with dozens of flesh-piercing hooks. On January 23rd tens of thousands of ethnic-Indian Malaysians gathered at the Batu Caves temple outside Kuala Lumpur to celebrate Thaipusam, one of Hinduism's biggest festivals. In past years more than a million have turned out. .....
  • She fights, she suffers
    • by Soma Mitra
      'Peace' may have returned to Nandigram… but for the women whose lives are shattered by the land clashes, the fight for justice has just begun. .....
  • Buta Singh has a point on religious reservation
    • by Sandhya Jain
      The de-legitimisation of the word 'dalit' (which means "broken, crushed") is a blow to the West-funded evangelical industry which has long promoted the term to forge separatism amongst the Scheduled Castes. The 250 million Scheduled Castes are a principal target of the conversion industry that has abused the caste system for discrimination against the SCs and promised them equality and economic enhancement. .....
  • Advani, Gujral speak for Taslima
    • by The Hindu
      Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader L. K. Advani on Thursday sought an extension of the visa of exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen. He also demanded that she be allowed to lead a normal life in West Bengal. .....


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