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16 May 2010
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| Hindu Festival Attacked |
Hindu Festival Attacked
From Special Correspondent
A peaceful protest march organized by Hindu Samhati, at the Haringhata Police Station in Nadia district, passed off peacefully on May 5, 2010. Tensions had been simmering in this area over repeated assaults by Muslim miscreants on Hindus attending the Pagol Thakurer Mela, a local Hindu festival. The procession of approximately 500 people walked 7 km. on a hot day, from Paglatala to Haringhata Police Station. The procession started at 1.30 pm and reached the venue...
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| A Case of Kettle Calling Pot Black |
A Case of Kettle Calling Pot Black
Amba Charan Vashishth
Prudence is a great virtue. Think before you speak -- we generally preach but hardly practice in our life. In politics it is necessary to be very cautious about your words. BJP President Mr. Nitin Gadkari could have been more diplomatic to convey his displeasure at some leaders having betrayed the cause of the opposition and the nation without the use of the words he used. He could have used words, phrases and gestures to make people understand that some leaders did lick t...
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| 14 August and Its Aftermath |
14 August and Its Aftermath
 Dr. Shiv Shakti
August 14 deserves to be recorded as a day of immense historical significance in the recent past when Pakistan was born and India was partitioned in 1947. It is an irony that people tend to forget most of the tragedies that have befallen Indian civilization. Although, India now represents one of the oldest living civilization along with China, formation of Pakistan symbolizes its receding boundaries and threatened future. The gory incidents of riots, arsons, loot and massacres fin...
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| Hindu Temples and Buddhist Monasteries, Part I | Hindu Temples and Buddhist Monasteries, Part I
Vinod Kumar
"The fuss over Liberhan Report has mostly died down, at least in the media, but it has brought the Ayodhya issue back to "our consciousness". ....many young readers seem mystified by the fuss and annoyed by the refusal of journos to tell them what it is all about?" Thus mused Vir Singhvi in Ayaodhya for dummies (Hindustan Times Dec. 6, 2009) So he set about answering twelve most frequently asked questions on the Ayodhya issue. Did he really tell “what it is...
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| A Fearless Intellectual Ram Swarup, Part II | A Fearless Intellectual Ram Swarup, Part II
V Sundaram
When he and Sita Ram Goel were fighting together against the menace of communism in India after 1949, Sri Ram Swarup viewed Gandhism as an alternative to communism. In a pamphlet written after the assassination of Gandhiji ' Mahatma Gandhi and his Assassin ' (1948), he expressed the view that martyrdom was only befitting a man of Gandhiji's elemental greatness. After waging a relentless intellectual battle against communism and serfdom, Sri Ram Swarup turned to religious and philosop...
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