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Pakistan: Flawed Beliefs
The weekly Saturday Opinion column (Dawn, August 1, 2009) by Mr. Irfan Husain illustrated that social change or activism is globally proliferating through cyberspace. The cyber revolution is making life difficult for those trying to impose censorship or self-righteous views. The elites of 21st century who promote that maintaining medieval and pre-medieval social order for governing traditional Islamic lands should remember words of poet Iqbal quoted above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_I...
| K Bhatia |
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Rebuttal : West and Muslims
I am not comfortable that some Muslims settled in the West are complaining about violation of their constitutional rights. If true, I consider it as abrasions; call it collateral damage associated with on-going clash of civilization. The Muslims blame America and the West for their misfortunes ignoring who started the clash of civilization. West in general and America in particular is in a ...
| K Bhatia |
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View: West and the Islam
The Western judicial system had devastatingly missed the Grotian Moment that could have been achieved by a fairer and internationally acceptable trial of Saddam Hussein and his cohorts and had touched the parameters of the Paradox of Inversion by staging the prosecution in Shia dominated Iraqi court and later through sanctifying the trial and execution that followed. Monstrous as the crimes of Saddam Hussein were, the verdict, one can reasonably presume had already been decided upon long before ...
| Kazi Masud |
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PAK: Impact of Radicals and Weak..
Pakistani rulers and army generals completely underestimated the impacts including unintended consequences and insecurities, etc that radical jihadis will have on internal security of Pakistan. America never suspected that in 2001 its homeland security will be shattered as a result of direct attacks by a handful of Arab terrorists trained in areas now labeled Afpakia. The War on Terrorism from 2002 to 2008 destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan and delivered a windfall of billions in diplomatic oil ($12...
| K Bhatia |
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India"s New Nuclear Drama
The recent drama in the G-8 declaration that, unless India signs the NPT( Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) it will not get any nuclear enrichment and reprocessing plants meeting regarding the Indo-US nuclear treaty, has demonstrated the unrealistic approach adopted by India. The unrealistic expectation of India was that by signing the treaty India can somehow avoid the restriction imposed by the IAEA and NSG against proliferations of nuclear weapons. However, both IAEA( International Atomic Ene...
| D Basu |
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Homosexuality - a milestone achieved
If one fails to get opposite sex, choose same sex. But the condition is you must do sex, whether your age permits or not. And that is freedom - 15th August 1947 was achieved for this only.AIDS is the legal punishment of Nature. You want CONDOMS as you still want to remain a defaulter. And now, you say Nature, Just see what else can I do against you. You made opposites for sex, I will deliver this without opposites. You see. Wait and watch - where are you going?...
| Chanchal |
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Inculturation and the Hybrid Bible
It is not at all surprising for me to know that the Archbishop of Mumbai lied to editor, Hindu Voice while answering his question on The New Community Bible during the press meet held on 12th June 2009, 3.30 p.m at the famous Shanmukhanada Hall, Mumbai.Just read the following quote.When the existence of the Church is threatened, she is released from the commandments of morality with unity (of the Church) as the end; the use of every means is sanctified, even cunning, treachery, violence, simony,...
| Srinivasan |
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Iran, India and the US Dollar
This is not the first time that USA has sympathy for one side of the Islamic regime which is determined to destroy the Western and Eastern civilizations. During the days of President Reagan, Iran has financed the terrorists to destroy the socialists in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Ethiopia and in return USA has supplied weapons to Iran directly or indirectly through Israel, Pakistan and Turkey. USA is expecting that a new regime will be more accommodating particularl...
| D Basu |
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BJP"s defeat: The Hindu perspective
The BJP has lost in the recently concluded Lok Shabha 2009 elections. The political party, conceived as the face of Hindu interest has lost to the dynastic Congress Party. The people of India, the land of ancient Hindu civilization, with over 700 million electorate, arguably 80% of whom are Hindus, participated and chose not to elect the party that is accused of being communal and non-secular for promoting Hindu agendas and looking after Hindu concerns. Logically then one has to raise the follow...
| Arindam B |
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Eastern India must not become a desert
Just about a quarter of a century ago, in December 1985, I had disembarked at Palam Airport of New Delhi from a flight from London to board an Indian Airlines plane to Bhubaneswar, which is the capital of my state of Orissa, and also my hometown where my parents lived. The three hour long domestic flight was scheduled to depart around the mid-day with a stop over at Raipur in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. After an early morning fog the sky over New Delhi was all clear and a brigh...
| N Das |
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Regional Interests of Global Powers
President Zardari in a recent visit (May 2009) to Washington DC boasted that Pakistani army strength is 700,000. Pakistan has deployed 110,000 troops to counter insurgency (COIN) operations on its western border. A ratio of 7 to 10 troops per insurgent suggests that Pakistan estimates strength of Taliban and al Qaeda guided insurgent force to be in a range of 11,000 to 16,000. Another guesstimate puts it between 30,000 to 35,000 insurgents suggesting that the deployed army strength for COIN oper...
| K Bhatia |
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Global Terrorism and Pak Policies
In addition to nuclear capabilities of Pakistan the breaking news (mid-May 2009) reports demise of the Tigers in Sri Lanka and reelection of Congress party dominated coalition called UPA (United Progressive Party) headed by PM Manmohan Singh in India.Terrorism dominated parts of South Asia starting 1970s and its scale was such that it acquired global attention. Sikh Terrorists were militarily defeated in 1984 by the Indian Armed forces and Tamil LTTE forces were defeated in May 2009 by Sri Lanka...
| K Bhatia |
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Agenda after 2009 Elections
Elections are over. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was sworn in on May 22, 2009 for second time and some elected representatives are now jogging for a place in the cabinet. Personal ambitions and agendas of elected politicians are on display. However, India has to stay focused on its priorities for aam aadmi. Outlined here are details of Bharat Nirman Yojanas that potentially can make India a developed nation in about a decade....
| K Bhatia |
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Modest Swing Effects 61 Seat Bounty
It was neither a faith in the Congress, nor an out right rejection of the BJP that prompted this somewhat palatable outcome. Neither was this a vote for Manmohanomics, or an endorsement of the government handling of 26/11. It was happenstance, plain and simple. How else can you explain a modest voter swing to effect such a disproportionately large alteration in seats? It was a fluke that vaulted the Congress to a seemingly spectacular victory. I have no qualms about that for it provides us with ...
| Vivek G |
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Aravind Adiga: Intellectual bankruptcy of...
On 14th October 2008, the Booker Committee announced in London that Aravind Adiga will get the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger. The writer, Aravind Adiga claims in an interview:At a time, when India is going through great changes and ,with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society, he said, adding that the criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac & Dickens in the 19th century...
| P Saksena |
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