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MF Hussain & Artistic Freedom...
This article raises questions about the observations of Indian courts which have been generally liberal in preserving individual freedoms vis-à-vis the rights of the majority religion. Could the defenders of artistic freedom, have inveigled the courts into delivering ill-conceived judgements by speciously citing mischievous evidence? In the process were the courts oblivious to pertinent alternative views on the matter?There was a time when judicial pronouncements were characterized by the erudit...
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Infeasibility of the G-20 Stimulus Plan
Tasks in front of the G-20 leaders were to produce a framework to solve the world economic crisis by thinking out of box. Instead they want another round of stimulus without learning any lesson from George Bush and Gordon Brown of UK, who just gave away more than $900 Billion to the Anglo-American banks and financial institutions without restructuring them and as a result money just disappeared in a black hole without creating any solution yet. Much of these stimulus plans are empty promises or ...
| D Basu |
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Is Islam in Danger
To understand the background of what is happening in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the attack of 9/11 by the so-called purist part of the Muslims one has to recall the battles between the Sallahdin and the Christian Kings for the control of Jerusalem, holy to the Muslims, the Christians and the Jews. Responding to Byzantine Emperor Alexeis plea for help against the Turks at the dawn of the eleventh century Pope Urban II reminded the Christians of Emperor Charlemagnes forcible conversion of Saxons...
| Kazi Masud |
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..and the struggle continues
The election results in India may reflect a fractured escapism of a long suppressed nation but does not represent true ethos of its people. They have put no trust in one single party, having been betrayed by doing so for most part of sixty years of its, so-called, freedom. They have become cynical and lethargic. The polling was low and there was no enthusiasm for voting, except for the motley crowd of people who wanted status quo, no change, cultural imperialism and continuity of privileges.The...
| Rasik S |
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Why the War Against Terror cant be won...
Over the last few days, as news continued to pour in about Talibans seemingly unstoppable march across north-west Pakistan, the question that would not go away in my mind was: Why is this not on the national agenda?Is the Indian media really clueless? is it really so naive that it does not realise the gravity of the situation? or was this simply something that could be dismissed with a Yeh to hota hi rahta hai (and/or its variant: Kuch nayee baat batao yaar) ?And yet, the happenings in Pakistan ...
| B Shant.. |
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Mr PM, Indias needs better leaders
Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thinks Indias global standing will diminish and its image as a liberal, secular democracy take a beating if Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom the BJP has projected as next-in-line to LK Advani, ever becomes Prime Minister. Let it be clear that when he said global, the PM perhaps meant the western countries and USA and may be the oil rich Middle eastern nations and not Zimbabwe or Rwanda. It is interesting that the Prime minister did not find it against ...
| Arindam B |
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Hindu Self Shaming
Often I hear my Hindu friends express how ashamed they are about being a Hindu when they come across some media report about Hindu religious or cultural customs which may not conform to their westernized logic. Or it may be news item of a communal incident in which Hindus are reported to have participated. Western media as well as the English media in India routinely portray Hinduism in stereotyped manner and have rarely shown objectivity in such reports. My friends do not bother to check the re...
| Venkat L |
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Varadarajan at hindu: a secular liability
This is apropos of Siddharth Varadarajan Where silence prevails, justice will not [The Hindu ] The newspaper has long been known to be an impotent lapdog of degenerate commie propaganda. In a recent article, its editor N Ram was glorifying the annihilation of Tibetan culture, society and civilization by the Chinese on the pretext of saving them from serfdom while on a Chinese govt. sponsored trip to Tibet. The moral vacuity of a news editor who tomtoms obvious Chinese propaganda machinery as the...
| S Basu |
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Is terror only impediment to devel..
In politics achievement or failure of a government in the first hundred days generally catches the eyes of the people as some believe that morning shows the day. Bangladesh is no exception. Illogical though it may be some people have started counting the success/failures of the Awami League led coalescing political government.Bangladesh, unlike many countries of the world, rarely had hung parliament. The elections have been decisive and the winning party and its allies have generally been given ...
| Kazi Masud |
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Rebuttal: Taliban is already in India
This is a RESPONSE BY ARINDAM BANDYOPADHYAY TOThe Taliban is already amidst us in India, by Jyotirmaya SharmaTHEY WILL NOT COME FROM PAKISTAN, (you are right, some of them are already in India and demonstrate their talents from time to time in the serial bombings of the various cities, not to mention the ones that are frequent visitors in Kashmir for ages. Others when they come will be from a place that would be former Pakistan after the actual Talibans are done with that country) THEY ARE HERE ...
| Arindam B |
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The Dark Side Of Ragging
The debate about whether, ragging is good or bad, is once more in the air. The incidence that brought the ugly face of ragging to light, occurred on March 7th, but was reported in media only on Saturday, April 11, little more than a month later. Media reported: A 19-year-old management student may have permanently lost his vision after his seniors beat him up in a Coimbatore college last month.Akhil Dev alleges his senior students at the PSG College of Arts and Science punched him in the eyes an...
| Nithin S |
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Water management for times of scarcity
As the World Water Day passed by, almost unnoticed, I recall a seminar I attended last month. Programmes like these are held by concerned leaders of society off an on in major cities across the world. But is anybody listening?Today, we are in a situation of water scarcity. Deaths due to water scarcity and water-borne diseases are increasing day by day.Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any drop to drink...
| Nithin S |
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Congress, Tytler and the Sikhs
Tytler was accused by the Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 riots as having a very probable hand in organising attacks on Sikhs. In a politically dramatic manner, the investigating agency submitted its report in a sealed envelope before the Metropolitan Magistrate Ram Lal Meena. The investigating agency in 2007 too had asked the court for permission to close the case arguing that it did not have sufficient evidence to proceed. However, the court had rejected the CBI plea. During the pro...
| V Sundar.. |
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USSR"s Recognition of Azad Hind Govt
For the people brainwashed by false propaganda, it is difficult to recognize the truth. That is particularly true about the Indian population fed with gigantic propaganda unleashed by the Government of India and the historians attached to the government since 1947 against the memory of both Subhas Chandra Bose and his Free India Government in exile. Although it is a fact that along with Germany, Italy, Japan, the Soviet Union also has recognized the Free India Government established in 1943 in S...
| D Basu |
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Where Is the Frontline, Sahib?
The nuclear and missile armed Pakistani Generals are unable to maintain the writ of the nation by delivering law and order to a nation beleaguered by terrorists.So to the political masters, the Sahibs of Pakistan, I ask, what is the frontline status of Pakistan, Sahib?The revolution of 1979 forced the Shah in to exile and brought Ayatollahs to power in Iran. America was locked in to the Cold War against communism promoted by the USSR. The global oil crisis of 1973-74 had made the worlds second l...
| K Bhatia |
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