Obama bats for Islamic fundamentalists
By making misleading statements and peddling misinformation, US President Barack Obama is weakening the war against jihad—which, in his scheme of things, is a figment of ‘Islamophobic’ imagination. His administration has banned the use of expressions like jihad and Islamic terrorism; it uses amorphous terms like violent extremism instead. Obama’s More...
The Adulteress or the misogyny of Jesus Christ
The Bible narrates an episode about Jesus and an accused adulteress (John 8:1-11). In this narrative, Jesus is in an assembly with his disciples. A mob brings a woman to the assembly, accuses her of having committed More...
Shirin Dalvi shame: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost her job and is being prosecuted by the authorities and persecuted by her own community. Her crime? On 17 January, More...
AAP’s funding comes from the Dubai goldmine
Once again the somnolent BJP has been caught napping. Their top brass and India’s intelligence agencies failed to investigate Arvind Kejriwal’s dubious Dubai connections. That explains why the BJP’s top More...
Pakistani and Jihadi support for Arvind Kejriwal and AAP
The Pakistan-supported political gorilla Arvind Kejriwal and his communalist outfit Aam Aadmi Party are back in the news once again. The time has come to inform the Indian masses, especially the somnolent Hindus More...
Possible parallels in a meteorological tradition from India and South America
Research by Orlove, Cane and Chiang on the native weather forecasters in the mountains of Peru and Bolivia has brought to light an interesting tidbit of traditional knowledge [1]. The traditional crop of these regions More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
Gandhi’s assassination and Godse’s truth
Ever since the BJP’s ascension to power, attempts have been made to eulogize Nathuram Godse as a sterling patriot who committed an outrageously bold act in national interest. Hindu nationalists are understandably More...
An Open Letter to President Obama on Religious Freedom
Dear President Barack Obama, You spoke of religious freedom and in favor of the right to proselytize during your recent visit to India. Your words reflect the Christian West’s obsession with religious freedom. More...
Understanding Islam in perspective
If we want to understand Islam in perspective, there is no better guide than Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel. Yes not even Bernard Lewis or Daniel Pipes has done as perfectly as the duo did; their work is marred by More...