Monthly Archives: September 2007

Romila Thapar Pitches In

September 29, 2007 – 11:14 pm

The High Priestess of Indian history pitches in to besmear Rama. Remember her role during the Ayodhya days? As usual, her defence is long winded and she hacks the same lines ad nauseam. At first glance I didn’t think this was blog-worthy till this caught my attention:

These other versions might be objected to or dismissed [...]

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Stop Torturing Rama

September 26, 2007 – 9:34 pm

In an article that examines some of the recent happenings around the Sethusamudram project, Outlook fleshes out interesting findings worth exploring in detail. The focus of the article is on Karunanidhi’s angry articulations on Lord Rama. (Aside: I think it’s time the K in DMK is changed to Karunanidhi.)

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Islam and Cricket

September 25, 2007 – 1:43 pm

India wins the crucial 20-20 cup in an exhilarating match against arch-rivals Pakistan. The whole country celebrates. But–and as expected, we always have souls violently disenchanted with their own nation’s victory.

A group of youths who were celebrating the Indian team’s victory in the Twenty 20 cricket final between India and Pakistan were attacked by [...]

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Big Brother Sermonizes

September 18, 2007 – 9:05 pm

The US has long since arrogated to itself the role of guardian of freedom of the whole world–remember Independence Day? In itsInternational Religious Freedom Report for 2007 on India, it lists its findings. An admirable job, really. But not accurate. At a minimum, the report reaffirms its biases. One would expect to find at least [...]

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Plumbing Serious Depths

September 18, 2007 – 4:48 pm

And the award for the Height of Patriotism goes to a certain Chintamani Mahapatra. Like you, I’ve never heard of the eminence before. He has decided to emerge from the JNU labyrinth. He actually advocates that India take the ISI’s help for tackling terrorism.

As India and Pakistan gear up to hold the second meeting of [...]

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The Economist and Early Elections

September 17, 2007 – 8:16 pm

The Economist’s India reporting needs a makeover. At the least, it displays a shocking lack of basic knowledge on the current political happenings in India. An article that comments on mid-term polls in India either ignores several key aspects, or gives a one-sided view of things.
The first three years of the UPA’s term has coincided [...]

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Passage to India

September 16, 2007 – 12:23 am

Running a coalition government is thorny. With fragile vote tallies, allies need to be continually placated. In the Indian context, an irony that doesn’t escape our attention is parties with least numbers seem to garner the maximum benefits. The DMK with just 16 seats is the ally that the Congress has tried to appease by [...]

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The Damage of the Secularists

September 14, 2007 – 10:54 pm

Ashok Malik’s excellent piece on the Ram Sethu controversy and related secular antics. It is a must-read to understand how far we’ve been pitted against ourselves. Reproduced from the Pioneer in full.

Faith, fact and fiction
Ashok Malik
Ram is make-believe, Dwarka did not exist, the Saraswati is a myth. But how much have the Archaeological Survey of [...]

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Ayodhya Redux?

September 13, 2007 – 6:26 pm

Typical of the ineptitude, double-standards, and a shameless vulgarity that characterizes it, the UPA government has done a volte face within 24 hours. As this superb piece elucidates, the UPA had no business to speculate on the historicity of Rama in an affidavit purported to defend its position on constructing the Sethu canal.

Having said this, [...]

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Islamic Terrorism is the West’s Creation

September 12, 2007 – 3:43 pm

Pankaj Mishra wants us to believe that Islamic terrorism is the product of Western imperialism. The whole article is comedy par excellence but it’s both dangerous and sad that lots of people take him seriously.

We would see how much radical Islamist movements are a creation of certain forces of Western modernity itself. How much they [...]

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