Read Balbir Punj’s take on it. Reproduced here in full, from the Pioneer.
Can Islam be democratic?
Balbir K Punj
Islam supercedes nationality,” says media mogul Rupert Murdoch. “You have to be careful about Muslims who have a very strong, in many ways a fine but very strong religion, which supercedes any sense of nationalism wherever they go,” [...]
The Verbal Terrorist seems to be smitten with a new affliction lately. I wrote about it at some length. The malady can be reduced to a mantra, a chant: India is not a democracy (repeat 7639203410 times, rinse repeat it again for the same number of times… and so on). She chanted it as recently [...]
Full marks to Andhra CM Samuel Reddy for displaying a stellar performance, so typical of neo-converts. Actually, he’s a second-generation convert but he’s ensuring that his offspring will have strong roots to look rely upon.
Reddy is a second-generation Christian. His father, Mr. Raja Reddy, while serving in the military in Burma came across Christian [...]
Outlook reports on the new opportunity for Indian nurses thanks to globalization. Only the byline got my attention, I didn’t bother to read the whole piece, which expands on this theme.
She’s suddenly being chased by eligible bachelors. She is being wooed by the US government. Meet the new Indian export: the Indian nurse whose destination [...]
Here’s Soli Sorabjee displaying his retardation in full glory. The substance of his argument: it is right for India to not publish the Prophet’s cartoons. He makes his case in a typical magistratish fashion, peppered with precedents, legalese and jurisprudence that leaves you dazzled but contains a huge void by way of substance. In the [...]
The thug General next door now wants to demilitarize Kashmir.
After his plethora of proposals on Kashmir over the last two years, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf now says that ‘‘demilitarisation’’ is his ‘‘final resolution’’ of the dispute. ‘‘I have proposed demilitarisation as a…final resolution. Demilitarise Kashmir, give self governance to people of Kashmir with a joint [...]
Lalit Koul writes about another (sic) peace-bus service to Pakistan. The land of Abhinavagupta is now a terrorist-haven, with successive Indian governments as passive enablers.
It is ironic that on this day, World Refugee Day, the Indian government is flagging off another bus service between India and Pakistan while there is no bus service for [...]
I won’t attempt any presumptuous education on how blogging evolved from commentary-cum-linkfests to a pervasive phenomenon that is almost perverse.
Here are some pictures from a recent trip to Nagarahole forest and Waynad. Ok, I just want to show off my new photo gallery.
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Caste as Foreign Policy
If my earlier post on dyed-in-the-wool communist, Raja Mohan hasn’t convinced you, here’s more proof. The article is titled Winners still in denial and the blurb reads Don’t obsess over the nuke deal’s text. Read it for the big idea on India but you shake your head in frustration after reading it: huh? what’s he [...]