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Catholic Nun, Hindu Swami & English Media
The rape of a Catholic Nun in Kandhmal by suspected Kandh tribals has intensified the Congress-led UPA governments fascist intention to dismiss the popularly elected, two term chief minister Naveen Patnaik heading the BJD-BJP coalition, hypocritically disowning their own legacy of failure under Congress Chief Minister J B Patnaik when Graham Staines was burnt to death by Dara Singh, a lone tribal ranger.Big font headlines in English dailies over an event which considering the explosive situation...
| S Basu |
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SIMI vs. BAJRANG DAL
We hear quite often Mulayam Singh and few other leaders shouting to ban Bajrang Dal in response to ban on SIMI. The first step of the Government should have been to arrest this leader who is advocating SIMI. The law loves to beat the poor. Rich Muslims and Mulayam Singh would not be touched. But any poor Muslim advocating SIMI can be easily arrested. Though, advocating wrong thing is wrong and arrest is the first step that should take place, but why are the leaders not touched? However, if reade...
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Godhra revisited
After six agonizing years of wait, it is not justice they seek. It is not restoration of their lives and compensation they seek. It is also not hope of passing sentence on the perpetrators of this most murderous of crimes, as also the thousands who actively aided the cause) in the name of a particular religion they profess). For the relatives and sympathizers of the scores of Hindu men, women and children either burnt to death or who survived with scars for life; what they have been awaiting is...
| S Basu |
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Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - III
In the previous parts we have seen how ancient sources of nIti have treated the aphorism of vasudhaiva kuTumbakaM. In this concluding part, we shall survey the rest of the sources where this shloka has appeared and understand the contexts of its usage.The Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part I - HitopadeshaThe Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part II - Panchatantra and kauTilyaThe Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part III - Upanishada and Poeticsvasudhaiva kuTumbakam in vikrama-charitaVer...
| S Tiwari |
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Opp Cong intensify hatred against Hindus
The Congress and the other party in the opposition benches in the Karnataka State Assembly which popped up on the scene did nothing to ease the situation. Instead they provoked the sentiments of the Christians to further intensify their hatred against the Hindus and the ruling BJP. It is certainly not wrong to say that the opposition Congress and the JD(S) caused the communal tension which would have been long forgotten by now.Given this, it is certainly not wrong to conclude that the instigator...
| U Prabhu |
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USA Fin Crisis and Lesson for India
An open, competitive and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarcer resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than government intervention, Henry Paulson, the U.S Treasury secretary said in Shanghai in March 2007. This year it sounds like a big joke given the fact that both the United States and UK government s are nationalizing banks and financial institutions in order to avoid a complete meltdown of their financial system. On 7th September, 2008...
| D Basu |
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India"s Wrong Monetary Policy
With the uncontrolled inflation, the diagnosis of the prime minister is that it is imported and so we can do little, but to control the money supply within India by increasing interest rate and making it more difficult for the banks to lend out by increasing the reserve ratios of the commercial banks. The medicine is not new but it is the classic remedy coming from the International Monetary Fund to reduce money supply in an economy facing inflation, irrespective of the nature of the disease.Wha...
| D Basu |
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Hindu-American Democrats Dilemma
The political scene of 1960s and the charisma of John F. Kennedy, running for president of United States of America, Ask not what the country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country reverberated. I had the pride and pleasure of getting Ph.D., and a decade later, in acquiring the citizenship of USA in 1974. Pretty soon I registered as a member of the Democratic Party for good and started thinking as an Indo-American rather than an Indian in America. As I had always despised the Repub...
| TRN Rao |
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Racial Equality Bill & Jallianwala Bagh
In the middle of the nineteenth century, in order to solve serious labour shortage, Australia started drawing workers from Asia Pacific in the form of indentured labour, and invited Chinese immigrants to work the fields and tend the sheep. Then gold was discovered in 1851, and the number of Chinese workers in Australia increased. The diligent Chinese excavated for gold in fields of poor yield or on plots abandoned by the European settlers, yet successfully produced good quantities of gold. The s...
| Shizuka I |
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Our weak resolve emboldened terrorists
Islamic terror was an event waiting to happen conceptualized far earlier than what are claimed to be sentinel events. These so called trigger events only served to accelerate the pace of this monstrosity and force out into the open.When we seek a justification for these dastardly acts where none exists, we weaken our resolve and embolden the terrorists imbuing them with a false sense of righteousness. This is the biggest fallacy of our anti-terror drive: a lack of clear thinking that befuddles o...
| Vivek G |
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Indian Muslims: Dealing with Past
Indian Muslims have taken opposite path of denial, distortion and deflection. They have received more than generous help from allies like Marxist, Fabian Socialist, Islamist etc. who are co-travelers on this path. In fact, it is the allies who have encouraged and lead Indian Muslims on this path. On behalf of Indian Muslims, Allies have used denial, distortion and deflection tactic to justify even the most unjustifiable mistakes like partition. Indian Muslims pro-partition role is proven beyond ...
| M Patel |
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Land grab Conspiracy in Kerala
Kerala is a place where you cannot get agriculture labourers because everyone is literate and thinks manual labour is unbecoming. The minimum wages that you have to pay to any manual labourer is Rs. 250/- a day - for 6 hours of what they deem to be work. The carpenter gets Rs. 300/- to Rs. 500/- a day. A live-in maid comes at not less than Rs. 4500/- plus food and clothes, a month. If you use her for other things, you pay extra. All labourers come to work in motorcycles or scooters.Kerala is Gul...
| R Sajan |
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Tactics and Propaganda of Proselytization
Ours is an era of capitalism-an era marked by financial prowess, controlled by financial czars, and ruled by corrupt politicos. The greatest weapon of our times is not one that kills the bodys power to breathe, but the one which kills the minds power to reason-propaganda. Any person or institution which successfully utilizes this system is the one who can be victorious in all endeavors. Organizations in this country, apart from political parties, who use propaganda are Christian missionary insti...
| U Prabhu |
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Nationalism-A Concept Alien to Islam
As an egalitarian nation, India has the constitutional obligation to guard the religious liberties of every citizen. Hence, recently, when Mohammad Zubair, a corporal with the Indian Air Force, was ordered to shave off his beard to maintain uniformity, he took no time in moving the countrys judicial system. A true Muslim must keep his beard, contended Zubairs attorney, stating that it was an essential part of his faith as per the Hadith and Sunna (recorded customs). We have the constitutional ri...
| U Prabhu |
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De-saffronization through change of Logo
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, has taken a sudden decision to change the beautiful LOGO of Kendriya Vidyalayas in India. The original LOGO, which depicted the rising sun and the lotus, the National Flower of India, was approved sometime in November 1962 (not during the days of Sangh Pariwar but during the days of Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru) and remained in force till the 79th meeting of the Board of Governors of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) which was held in New Delhi on the 2...
| V Sundar.. |
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