Jul
18
Muslims in Denial of Collective Responsibility?
July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
After reading( www.hindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071755660800.htm ) Hasan Suroor in The Hindu dated Jul17, I remembered a laconic fable I read as a kid.
A wolf and a kid are drinking water from the same stream. The wolf upstream, the kid downstream. The wolf wants to savour the kid. So, he goes-
“Hey, why are you making my […]
Mar
21
Bits of Indian History: Excerpts of An Interview
March 21, 2007 | 5 Comments
An interesting interview of Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar.
…Hindutva forces are very unevenly spread out and there are many countervailing factors, I don’t think that it has all the marked features of fascism.
It doesn’t have a very formed, organized left enemy that it contends against…
Gowalkar quite openly said that India is not meant for electoral […]
Mar
10
Why Blame US?
March 10, 2007 | 6 Comments
Why do you pick US to blame all the problems of the world? It is not possible that the US has done all the mischief!
So let us redistribute the blame. Let us start from the times of America’s independence and civil war. We can blame the slave trade on, maybe, Uganda. Had these countries not […]
Feb
11
“Why Do They Hate Us?”
February 11, 2007 | 12 Comments
Why do we hate the westerners?
Well, we don’t!
We dislike their governments and their aggressive policies. And the cultural arrogance (”everybody will live like we do, given a chance”).
But do we hate them?
I don’t think so.
Jan
1
Arundhati on the Afzal Issue
January 1, 2007 | 6 Comments
I have so far been silent on Afzal issue because I was mostly unaware of details. Even now I am, but these questions raised by Arundhati Roy rattled my head.She writes
Question 1: For months before the attack on parliament, both the government and […]
Dec
16
What Robert Reveals about Terrorism
December 16, 2006 | 1 Comment
In a very interesting session (1 hour) of ‘Conversations with History‘ Robert Pape talks about what causes terrorism.
I will strongly urge you to listen to Pape very seriously. I feel his contribution is very important to understand terrorism. It is quite counter-intuitive(one shocking revealation is perhaps the fact that the LTTE is the undoubtable champion […]
Dec
14
Bit of Politics and a bit of History
December 14, 2006 | 7 Comments
I don’t want this page to look like a video showcase. But I want to share the good ones I have seen. Therefore I will link to them, but not embed them.
PoliticsDoha Debates with Hamza Yusuf(About 50 minuts. Incomplete.)Basically concerned about terrorism.
Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land(One hour and 20 minutes)The Israel-Palestine fights.
HistoryThe Empire […]
Dec
5
Ayodhya of the South?
December 5, 2006 | 1 Comment
Submitted without comment:
Thousands of VHP and Bajrang Dal activists on Monday abandoned plans for a puja at the Baba Budangiri shrine in Chikamagalur. The decision came after the Karnataka government ordered a crackdown on any overtly religious gathering near the controversial shrine.
The activists had come to Chikamagalur over the last few days for the Shobha […]
Oct
18
Reconversion and Hindu Right
October 18, 2006 | 4 Comments
The Viswa Hindu Parishad has purified (shuddikriya) 336 tribal converts to Christianity in front of a huge crowd. Days after thousands of dalits converted to Christianity and Buddhism
It comes after reports that a christian youth has been abducted and abused by a mob of VHP. The catholics have expressed convern over the activity of extremists […]
Oct
17
Mosque blast in Kerala
October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I found on a rather unknown website of the Indian Express group that one person is hurt as a country bomb goes off on a mosque premises. Malegaon and Mumbai is still fresh in memory. The news reports:
According to the injured person, he had come to the mosque to do the morning namaz at around […]