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04 Oct 2009
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| Rise and Fall of Indology - II |
Rise and Fall of Indology - II
 NS Rajaram
As we just saw, European travelers had been visiting India before Vasco da Gama's arrival in India. These were mainly traders and diplomats, sometimes both. At least one of them, the Russian trader Afanasy (or Athanasius) Nikitin, who was in India from 1466 to 1472 has left an account of his travels. This was before the Portuguese and before Babar and the Moguls. Nikitin, like others before and after him was weak and vulnerable and in no position to assert his ‘superiority' ove...
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| Crime Deposits in Swiss Banks |
Crime Deposits in Swiss Banks
Amba Charan Vashishtha
When the issue of Indian black money stashed in foreign banks got erupted during parliamentary election campaign six months back, it was dismissed as a political and electoral gimmick. It became one of the points of election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress too promised to do everything possible in this direction.The matter is not that simple and trivial to be pushed under the carpet. It has far reaching consequences and is concerned with the welfare ...
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| A Devious Attempt to Equate Gita with Quran |
A Devious Attempt to Equate Gita with Quran
 RK Ohri
Recently a very clumsy attempt was made to downgrade the Gita during an interactive discourse organized by Times of India on a quixotic topic, ‘Jihad in the Gita and the Quran'. The title of the debate implied that the doctrine of jihad has been preached both in the Gita and the Quran - something totally false and highly offensive to Hindu ethos. The participants were Maulana Wahiduddin and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, while the well known columnist, Narayani Ganesh, acted as moderator. First things first. The scriptural soul of Hinduism, the Gita, does not prea...
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| Ideological Profligacy of a 5-star Hindu Guru | Ideological Profligacy of a 5-star Hindu Guru
Vinod Kumar
The Times of India recently conducted a discussion between Islamic scholar and peace activist Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Hindu spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the issue of Jihad in the Quran and Bhagvadgita. The discussion was moderated by Narayani Ganesh, a well known Columnist. Right at the beginning Maulana Wahiduddin started with "Let's discuss the misunderstanding of the term jihad. Jihad is an Arabic word that has neither a mysterious meaning nor relation to any sacred duty. Jihad is a simple word; it means to struggle, to strive. Jihad is to achieve a p...
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| Martyred Swami and the Blow of Islam | Martyred Swami and the Blow of Islam
 Lt. Col.(Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
After a long intellectual discourse with Swami Dayanand Saraswati at Bareilly there was a gradual change of heart in Munshiram. The seed sown in the United Provinces germinated and flowered in the Punjab. Munshiram was transformed into a man with a mission. It was also a turning point in the religious and political history of India which was struggling for freedom from the British Empire. He became a successful lawyer, was quite active in the Arya Samaj circles and took the Reformation movement seriously. When he saw his own daughter, Ved Kumari, coming under t...
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