EXTRACT FROM ANWAR SHAIKH’S BOOK ON ISLAM
The following is an extract from a 40 page booklet titled “ISLAM” authored by the late Anwar Shaikh, my friend. Anwar published it in December 1994 through his own company named ‘The Principality Publishers, P.O. Box 918, Cardiff CF2 4YP (U.K.),’ because at that time it was not politically correct in UK to criticize Islam so no publisher More...
Peshawar massacre: Jihad unlimited
The terrorist attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, in which 148 people, including 132 children died, evoked considerable outrage in our country and elsewhere. It also gave rise to the hope that, at long More...
Oafish Opposition
Consider the following : When the whole world was celebrating 21 June being declared as World Yoga Day by United Nations, with a record breaking support of 177 Nations, the entire opposition in both Lok Sabha More...
ISI Asserts Total Control on Pakistan’s Policymaking
In modern memory, December 16 was the darkest day for Pakistani children. A group of Taliban suicide bombers entered a military-run school in Peshawar and slaughtered 132 children and nine adults. The Taliban claimed More...
What is wrong with having a national scripture?
In a recent column, the scholar Jataayu argues that Sushma Swaraj’s recent call to declare the Bhagavad Gīta a national scripture is “silly and childish” and calls it a “mere empty symbolism.” More...
Vijay Divas—a trip down a victorious memory lane
Every year on 11 November, we often see headlines speaking of Armistice Day which marks the ‘armistice’ signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities More...
A year on, I thank my nation: Devyani Khobragade
Today is a momentous day for me. Exactly one year has passed since I was illegally arrested and jailed in New York on completely false charges brought in by my former Domestic assistant in order to get permanent More...
A House of Lords Debate on Poverty and Caste Discrimination in India: Continuing Foreign Interference in India’s Internal Affairs
This was contributed by IndiaFacts supporter Prakash Shah from the UK. A debate on poverty and caste discrimination in India took place in the British House of Lords onWednesday 26 November 2014. While the debate More...