While the army is still trying to gun ‘em down, the media has outgunned them by embarking on the mandatory yarn-spinning. Read this and participate in my outrage.
What baffles the security agencies is the sacred thread tied on his wrist which many say could be a plot to show that the attack was undertaken by [...]
You will be delighted to know that Indians have finally attained that elusive state, which Lord Krishna preached in the Gita: blissful equanimity, or Stithaprajna. I have this on authority of two bloggers I deeply respect: Nitin, who instead of writing an incisive piece on the Mumbai Siege (Nov 2008), has merely posted an open [...]
Like sheep following sheep, Newsweek latches on to the perfidy spread by the Indian secular media. This article would be laughable on the counts of non-research, extreme bias, and poor understanding of Indian politics. But, as Koenraad Elst observes elsewhere, Western journalists writing on India don’t bother with such trivialities as research when it comes [...]
Ashok Malik is kinder. He calls the slime-filled ATS investigation into the Malegaon blasts as a rogue intelligence operation. Given the material that has now surfaced, I think the appropriate term for the ATS is Rogue Intelligence Agency (RIA).
His incisive piece deserves reading in full. Don’t miss it.
Excerpts from Pragya Thakur’s affidavit. Offered without comment. Full text of affidavit in three parts.
10. Thereafter for two days I was detained and interrogated by the ATS team in Mumbai. The questions were repetitive and directed at somehow involving me in the bomb blast in Malegaon on 29.9.2008. My answers remained constant throughout.
11. I further [...]
So here’s a professor who claims that Muhammad the Prophet did not exist historically.
Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.
So [...]
Excellent, myth-busting take on “chacha” Nehru. Worth pasting in full. Like Swapan says, India has been too kind to Nehru.
Swapan Dasgupta
Looking for the real Nehru
It is hazardous to make sweeping generalisations of the national character. At the risk of being pilloried, let me reiterate the 11th century
Arab traveller Alberuni’s observation that Hindus (as [...]
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Aspiring for ‘change’ in IndiaSandeep B
Indians charmed by Obama wish their country could elect someone similar who would bring in ‘change’. What they forget is that unless a nation decides to move forward, change is impossibleIt is Obama season now. The murmur that began when Mr Barack Obama won has now metamorphosed into a [...]
With elections visible across the horizon, Karunanidhi is going at it with blazing barrels. No point “analyzing” this moron’s diseased mutterings. Nevertheless, here goes. Just the juicy bits.
Why scared ash and sacred thread in this holy land where all religions coexist in harmony?’ asked the Tamilnadu Chief Minister Karunandhi through one of his‘poems’, which he [...]
After a rather long hiatus, the arch-Secularist, U.R. Ananthamurthy creeps out of the woodwork by giving a rousing call to save the nation from “Godse’s way of thinking.” You must hand it to Ananthamurthy: on the august occasion of convocation, he couldn’t have chosen a better place than the Jamia Milia Islamia to spill his [...]
