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| Fight Naxal Terror: Don’t Just Feign It |
Fight Naxal Terror: Don’t Just Feign It
Amba Charan Vashishtha
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has been authorized to fight back the Naxalites if attacked. So spake Union Home Minister P. Chidamabaram on September 7 (Mail Today) Confirming that an IAF chopper had come under Naxalite fire a few days ago, the home minister said at Mumbai that the IAF would take "adequate counter measures" against the rebels. Chidambaram, who recently changed tack to put barrelling into armed Maoists ahead of development imperatives, repeated his resolve to take on the Maoist "war on the republic".He told a media conference in Mumbai: "We have no opt...
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| Rise and Fall of Indology - III |
Rise and Fall of Indology - III
 NS Rajaram
The post colonial era may conveniently be dated to 1950. India was free and the great Aryan ‘Thousand Year Reich' lay in ashes. In Europe at least the word Aryan had acquired an infamy comparable to the word Jihadi today. Europeans, Germans in particular, were anxious to dissociate themselves from it. But there remained a residue of pre-war Indology (and associated race theories) in various guises that succeeded in establishing itself in academic centers mainly in the United States. Its most visible spokesman in recent times has been one Michael Witzel, a German expatriate li...
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| Sri Ramanuja’s Perpetuation of Religion and Faithfreeedom for Muslims |
Sri Ramanuja’s Perpetuation of Religion and Faithfreeedom for Muslims
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
In the year 1017 A.D., Ramanuja was born in the village of Perumbudur, about twenty-five miles west of Madras. His father was Kesava Somayaji and his mother was Kantimathi, a very pious and virtuous lady. Ramanuja's Tamil name was Ilaya Perumal. Quite early in life, Ramanuja lost his father. Then he came to Kancheepuram to prosecute his study of the Vedas.About the end of the tenth century, the Visishtadvaita system of philosophy was well established in Southern India and the followers of this creed were in charge of important Vaishnavite temples at Kancheepur...
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| Editorial: Fight Naxal-Maoist Menace |
Editorial: Fight Naxal-Maoist Menace
The Editorial Team
The beheading of a police inspector Francis Induwar in Jharkhand was closely followed by gruesome killings of seventeen policemen in Maharashtra. Naxal-Maoist elements have been striking at their will and even with impunity. The brutal manner in which these killings have been carried out exposes the inhuman and barbaric aspects of communism as an ideology. Claiming to wage a war against the Indian state, Naxal-Maoists today hold sway in about 180 districts across ten states o...
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| Reign of Terror | Reign of Terror
RK Vij
The inhumane and merciless murder of Inspector Francis Induwar of Jharkhand Police, by those claiming to operate hefty schemes like ‘Janatana Sarkaar' (people's government), has exposed their real face once again. Many such instances have taken place in other Naxal-infested states. Until recently, before being pronounced as one of the most serious threats to the internal security of the country, Maoism was mostly downplayed by various actors of civil society including the media, ir...
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