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07 Jun 2009
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| Editorial: Racism Will Not Pay |
Editorial: Racism Will Not Pay
The Editorial Team
Attacks on Indian students in Australia have once again brought into the focus the issue of safety and security of the Indians living abroad. The Indian Diasporas today is over 20 million strong forming important constituents of the country of their residence. They are growing and becoming influential in the societies they have embraced. The profile of the Diaspora ranges from descendants of the migrant labourers of the colonial era to the highly skilled professionals of cu...
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| An Open Letter to BJP | An Open Letter to BJP
Dr. Papia Mitra
Let us go back to your first time in power. You came to Delhi riding on a wave of promises to restore pride to Hindu community. But what did you actually do, besides trying to introduce astrology as science subject? The Ram mandir issue was not settled: either one way or the other, leaving it as a open wound that you can exploit whenever elections roll round. No matter what compulsions you plead it showed a lack of resolve. Then there was the issue of Kashmiri Pandits; o...
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| Jeopardising Australian Multiculturism |
Jeopardising Australian Multiculturalism
 Amit Singh
The recent onslaught on Indians in Australia has raised the question of authenticity of the Australia's Multicultural policy. Indians rank tenth in the list of immigrant influx to Australia. The first groups of Indians who arrived in Australia were mainly Sikhs and Muslims from the Punjab region in north-western India. From 1860 to 1901, there was an exodus influx of Indians. The Indians who went there basically worked as agricultural labourers, hawkers and domestic help. A number of...
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| Relentless March of Dogma-II |
Relentless March of Dogma –II
 Jai Prakash Sharma
Current reports in the English press in Pakistan reflect considerable concern over the growing Talibanization of Pakistan. In its editorial of 25 May 2007 The Daily Times lamented the people's failure to realize that Pakistan is losing territory to the Talibanization wave which having won the Tribal areas is now threatening the settled areas and even Islamabad. Blaming the military for nurturing the Taliban in pursuit of their policy of "strategic depth" the editorial observe...
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| The Brown Parrot - Part II |
The Brown Parrot – Part II
 Pankaj Saksena
In 1994 Christian missionary, father Augustine Kanjamala of Pune wrote an article in Deccan Chronicle titled, ‘Replies to Arun Shourie'. In the article he wrote, "Harijans worship deities of lower rank, while caste Hindus worship deities of higher rank. For instance, Hanuman is worshipped by Harijans and Rama is worshipped by upper caste in the same village.... Hanuman was the servant of Rama; Harijans are servants of higher caste Hindus. A close affinity between their hier...
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| Speaker Should be Free and Fair |
Speaker Should be Free and Fair
Amba Charan Vashishtha
That is true also. But equally true is - and she and her predecessors too subscribed to this view - that a speaker must be fair, free, impartial and non-partisan. He or she should not only be so but should also appear to be so. Many of her predecessors did resign - and they were not wrong too -- from the party on whose ticket they had been elected to only to ensure that they were not only partial to or soft towards their party, but also looked to be so.
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