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01 Nov 2009
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| Editorial: Target & Strategy Must be Clear for Peace or War with Maoists |
Editorial: Target & Strategy Must be Clear for Peace or War with Maoists
The Editorial Team
While fighting for peace or waging a war against your enemy, one has to be very sure and clear of one's strategy, objective and target. One can ill afford to grope in the dark or shoot aimlessly. To win peace, one has to be prepared for war. That is true also. A weak nation cannot usher in peace with the weapon of weakness and unclear strategy.Only two days back Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram asked the Naxal-Maoists to lay down their arms before negotiations could start. ...
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| For ‘Secularists’ Our Constitution is ‘Communal’ |
For ‘Secularists’ Our Constitution is ‘Communal’
Amba Charan Vashishtha
Are you one among those who demand that the government should secure for the citizens of the country a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India; that Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions.-Article 370 should not be made permanent but abrogated; or that Government take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves? If you are, you are a rank ‘communalist' by the logic of our ‘secular' politi...
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| Oh, But You Do Get It Wrong! |
Oh, But You Do Get It Wrong!
Aditi Banerjee
Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School and in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago) was recently interviewed in Outlook with reference to her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. In the interview, she (1) falsely and unfairly brands all of her critics as right-wing Hindutva fundamentalists, and (2) grossly mischaracterizes (and misquotes) the text of the Valmiki Ramayana, calling into question her "alternative" version not just of the Ramay...
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| Courage is the Vehicle of Gita | Courage is the Vehicle of the Gita
 Aneeta Chakrabarty
Tara was the mistress of a crooked cop, yet in contrast to all the morality toting preachers, she took the witness stand and spilled the beans against the thugs who were holding the town to ransom with their nefarious network of drugs and prostitution. Putlibhai was an illiterate, abused housewife, viciously attacked by her husband during his drunken bouts. However, in contrast to her superior, educated sisters, Publibhai organized the women of the village and burnt down the liquor shops that had destroyed their homes. Unlike his better situated colleagues, Vive...
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| Sant Tulsidas and Religion of Akbar | Sant Tulsidas and Religion of Akbar
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
Tulsidas was born during the reign of Akbar to Hulsi and Atmaram Dubey in Rajpur, in Uttar Pradesh in 1532 CE. When he was a child the first word he ever uttered was "Ram" and hence he was called RamBola (literally translated to "he said Ram") by all the villagers. He married a devout and pious woman called Ratnavali. Tulsidas was extremely attached to his wife. One day his wife went to her parents' home to a neighboring town across the river Yamuna. That night, Tulsidas felt very lonely. It was a stormy night and Tulsidas, experiencing an ...
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