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Media under Scrutiny A billion strong Hindus have been taken for a ride, for so long, by so many eminent people, and at last they have seen through the game. Hindus have been woken rudely after Mumbai 26/11 up, are alerting other Hindus who are in deep coma to wake up to the Hindus who have been kept under Maya that all religions are the same and gain you the same goal is Moksha delivered to the Hindu society. ...	Srinivasan	Vasant: I agree with G.Kapuria. Ivatra can have discussion forum and let all people air their view. [2 comments]
An [hour] with a Prostitute! By: U. Mahesh PrabhuJan-01-2009Authors Home PageViews expressed here are authors own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom.(Author is Editor-In-Chief of upcoming apolitical and illustrated family magazine FOLKS and Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London (UK)) Feedback to authorIt took me a lot of time to decide whether or not to write about this incident in my life. As a guy who has been born and brought up in a relatively conservative and God-fe...	U Prabhu	Add Comment
Lets Buy or Destroy Pak Nukes Mr. Bret Stephens wants to buy Pakistani nukes (WSJ, Dec. 16, 2008) offering a handsome sum of $100 billion and in case buying is not an option I suggest a coalition of America, NATO, Israel, Russia and India to destroy all Pakistans nuclear assets. For Pakistani army and the ruling elites the nuclear assets are for blackmailing global powers each time Pakistani lashkar or irregular elements are caught in acts of terrorism planned in collaboration with al Qaeda and Taliban leadership.For many pu...	K Bhatia	Add Comment
A Hindu CM for J&K: Any Takers? Earlier this year when the Hindus of Jammu rose up in arms, their gripe was not merely the revocation of land allotted to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, they were in effect protesting their marginalization for the last 50 years or so in this Muslim majority state of secular India.Democracy is not synonymous with brute majorityism. Embedded in a civilized democracy are subtle nuances that transcend mere numbers and which exhibit a refined compassionate element that carries with it all sections o...	Vivek G	Add Comment
Vote bank politics: enemy of democracy While many of the banks are in trouble throughout the world, Vote Bank politics in India is alive and kicking and is a dangerous development for emerging democracies in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.The recent example of an anti majority cabinet minister in India raising possibility of conspiracy in the open murder of ATS officers in Mumbai terrorist strikes, was foolish and was raised because they were investigating, so called, Hindu terrorism and had lost credibility in doing so, ...	Rasik S	Michael joseph: VIAGRA MAKES IT EASIER TO CONTROL IMPOTENCY Each year, the thousand of people who suffer from erectile dysfunction increases due to a contrast of factors. Changing workplaces, functioning in stressful environments and miserable eating habits prete.... [1 comments]
Pakistani Terrorism: its aim & how to re.. The terrorist attack on Mumbai is already a few days old. Thus, the journalistic emotions have died down and now this is the time to think hard about the Pakistani terrorism and its aim before we can think about how to respond. The journalists in the British media are making the mistake of trying to link the issue of Kashmir to this terrorism, while most of these Western journalists, including the English woman born in India Arundhuti Roy, have no idea about long history of Islam and the history...	D Basu	S.Ghosh: S.M.Pasha: Brother of the Former President Zakir Husain was suspected to be a Pakistani agent. Former President Fakiruddin Ali Ahmed, when he was the home-minister of Assam had invited Muslims from East Pakistan to come to Assam to kill the Hindus. F.... [16 comments]
Song of the Soul: Happiness Staying happy, for everyone, is imperative. But what makes one happy? And having once attained that happiness how is one to sustain it? Since time immemorial, our civilizations have been in pursuit of happiness. All the religions and social systems discovered or invented were intended to make us happy. But, regrettably, even after conquering the moon and deploying satellites on other planetary bodies in our solar system, we are yet to attain that incessant happiness in our daily lives.Since ever...	U Prabhu	P. GANESH: It is veery much necessary for Hindus to oranize themselves more strongly against the other reliogionists We should be making effort to convince our so called educted and secular Hindu bretheren who consider it fashionale to decry our own religion a.... [1 comments]
Defeating Ideology of Islamic Terrorism The terrorist attack executed in Mumbai in a commando style operation, reminiscent of 9/11 was executed after careful planning, preparation, training and ideological conditioning. It was not the work of some disgruntled elements, who took law into their own hands, and went on a shooting spree. A new batch of terrorists had been graduated from Terrorism School, and sent to Mumbai on their deadly mission.The US must bear great responsibili...	Kalyan V	sharmajee: Excellent review and incisive analysis. Agree with almost all points made in this essay. Also share in the idea that the outlook is bleak. The only solution appears to be to pray for the rise of a supreme teacher from among the Islamists who revises .... [2 comments]
1947: Dark age start in India - II Bharat Gupt seems to tell us that the seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right. Reading his highly sensitive and revealing book with never sagging zest and delight, I am reminded of what the great Greek Poet and Writer Aeschylus (524-454 BC) said in his Agamemnon in 458 BC:Wisdom Comes alone through suffering...	V Sundar..	Add Comment
Global Financial Crisis and its Solution The IMFs chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned that the global financial crisis is set to worsen and that the situation will not improve until 2010; he also has said that the IMF did not have the funds to solve every economic problem. Massive withdrawals of investments from emerging countries could represent hundreds of billions of dollars, which is so significant that the IMF alone cannot counter them. The IMF had spent a fifth of its $250 billion fund in the first two weeks of November ...	D Basu	A.Moron: Indian media is still silent. No one really cares about the severe problem of the people. [8 comments]
Give Pak the Attention It Deserves India has experienced terrorist attacks for over four decades. The Global Terrorism Database, START (the US National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism) is maintained at the University of Maryland. It shows that India faced more than 4,100 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2004, accounting for about 12,540 terrorist-related fatalities or an average of almost 360 fatalities per year from terrorism in India. A University of Maryland statement said that the fatalities...	K Bhatia	Add Comment
War is now inside my home, not country I am afraid now the war is raging inside my house and not on the countrys borders. My PM is telling me not to be afraid and to keep calm and maintain peace and harmony. He is not angry and his body language conveyed that everything is under control. But my PM has Z Plus security which is perhaps why he is not agitated. I am an ordinary citizen. How can I remain calm when my own house is on fire? - An anguished Indian, Naresh Kumar Jains letter to the PM published in The Hindu ...	S Basu	common sense: If every inch of India is a home of every Indian, the war was in their home for years! Find ways to help stem the tide of terrorism instead of playing the blame game. [1 comments]
Time we call spade a spade On the night of 26Th November around 11.30, I was sitting online chatting with friends. Then, someone told me there has been terror attack on Mumbai. I thought it must be another bomb blast. I did not feel any emotions. After hearing to blasts every other day in different parts of India, it doesnt have much affect on me. I felt cold, but I did not bother to even switch on TV. Later around 12 am, the same guy told me to watch TV. So, I switched on TV hesitantly, while my mind was thinking about t...	Nithin S	Vasudevan: Yes Nitin, Very well written, very well analyzed. But who will agree - who, who is someone who matters, will agree? Common folks like you and me need to spread this message to a larger section of the society, a larger section of the nation and ma.... [1 comments]
CAG Diva wins Tippu Sultan Genocide Award It was a Red Letter Day at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The Annual Convention of the Indian Muslim Council has awarded the Tipu Sultan Genocide Award to their most visible faculty member, Associate Professor Dr. Angana Chatterji. She received the award to the applause of distinguished guests representing the worlds most distinguished genocide specialist organizations. Organizations as diverse and yet as united in their aspirations as the Pakistan embassy, the Pakistan-American A...	Ari Saja	ADhimmi: A well written article with lot of homework behind it. Unfortunately, in today"s discourse, when a Christian or Muslim asserts his/her faith it is considered normal behavior. When a Hindu asserts his faith he is labeled as a fascist. Those who nurt.... [6 comments]
Indias Bungled Crisis Mgmt in Mumbai Amidst the disastrous terrorist attack that took Mumbai, the commercial hub of India hostage to fear and uncertainty in one of its worst encounters ever, one big question that looms large is have we learnt our lessons yet? After so many past incidents, so many RED Alerts, be it the media, the government, the law and order or the security system, a question we need to ask is, Do we consider ourselves professionally mature and competent to handle such crisis situations?...	Jlakshmi	common sense: The media has come under much criticism on its coverage of the terrorists" attack in Mumbai. The media, though, did its job, which is to inform the public on the happenings on the terror site. It did the job splendidly well for which it deserves comm.... [21 comments]

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