The Pioneer carries a chilling account of what Mao’s terrorists are up to.
Army, weapons, funds, Maoists have ‘em all
Navin Upadhyay | New Delhi
In the dense jungles and remote hills of India, hundreds of hardcore Maoists are undergoing tough training in the art of guerrilla warfare. Equipped with sophisticated weapons, these men have been indoctrinated to [...]
Ananda Coomaraswamy is one of the little-known figures of India. Which is baffling because a vague estimate of his works runs into more than 15000 pages. It is all the more baffling because his range of subjects is almost beyond belief and his grasp of their intricate nuances is staggering. It is almost impossible to [...]
Malaysia decimates a Hindu temple.
Malaysian authorities have demolished a century-old Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, bulldozing the building as devotees cried and begged them to stop, Hindu groups said today. The Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman Temple was reduced to rubble after Kuala Lumpur’s city hall sent in bulldozers, they said.
The papers have carried the news [...]
Here’s something that was fowarded to me via email.
I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let’s start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. [...]
Cut to the initial days of the UPA trying to secure its reins to power. It out-shouted the NDA’s claim of improving the nation’s economy on the liberalization plank. The Congress party claimed the credit saying it initiated liberalization to start with. Fair enough. Again, to its credit, Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram have done pretty [...]
I’ve never followed the Sardar Sarovar controversy too keenly: just enough to know that Medha Patkar was fighting for a noble cause till Arundhati Roy stepped in and spoilt it. Much has been made about it–the dam’s height, displaced villagers, no proper rehabilitation, etcetra. In short, enough furore created to imprint NARMADA DAM PROJECT IS [...]
Asks Balbir Punj this article, reproduced in full here.
Islam in the eyes of Dalai Lama
Balbir K Punj
What can be more astonishing between a saint confusing people and a rogue speaking the truth? Two such unexpected observations became media bytes recently. The Dalai Lama, on a month-long trip to the US and South America, said at [...]
Azim Premji it seems is the first to smell the rat err, bell the cat.
A day after Manmohan Singh asked industries to broadbase employment and make it representative, Wipro chairman Azim Premji made it clear that his firm would recruit people only on the basis of merit thus ruling out reservation at Wipro. [...] “We [...]
Why does this Indian Express “report” read more like a Congress party leaflet than an actual news report?
Discriminated against and pushed to the sidelines, the Muslim community in India is at the bottom of the heap when it comes to benefits from Government-run welfare schemes, access to education, employment, even the system of credit, including [...]
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A Pragmatic Solution
Adversity is the greatest preceptor if it can impart lessons like this:
Chipping in 10,000 dollars each to counter HRD Minister Arjun Singh’s proposal to hike reservations in higher educational institutes such as IITs and IIMs, some IIT alumni from the 1969 Kanpur batch plan to set up preparatory schools for students in backward areas [...]