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| Can Hindus Learn from History? |
Can Hindus Learn from History?
Anil Ketkar
Nearly a millennium back, the year was not 2009, it was 1174, the attackers were not Lashkar-e-Toiba, but Jihadis nevertheless from the Ghurid clan. The method of attack did not involve suicide bombers in Islamabad, or terror squads in Lahore, but the cities of Mulasthana (Multan) and Sakala (Sialkot) and Purushapura (Peshwar) as also Suvastu (Swat) were being attacked by bands of roving Ghurid Jihadis who went about destroying Hindu temples and murdering innocent villagers in Punja...
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| Only Force Not Sufficient To Root Out Taliban |
Only Force Not Sufficient To Root Out Taliban
Vikas Anand
 Taliban's reach in Pakistan has become a matter of grave concern for the entire world and it is creating far more anxiety for India and those who want a peaceful South Asia. We all are apprehensive that Taliban's control on Pak nuclear arsenal could create nuclear crisis or any type of Islamic militants' control on Pakistan might lead to unrest in South-Asia. On seeing Taliban's success in extending territorial gains a senior US intelligence official expressing his concern sai...
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| Cowardly Pacifism Paralyzes India |
Cowardly Pacifism Paralyzes India
Aneeta Chakrabarty
The Chinese have done it again. Inch by inch, they move in through cold terrains and pathless woods into our lands. Bristling with hostility they brazenly demand demolition of India’s bunkers, claim 90,000 sq. km of Arunachal Pradesh and violate our borders with impunity. The Chinese envoy rarely quits his monotonous drumbeat of “Yes, that is our position. We lay claim to the whole of Arunachal Pradesh.” And the Chinese Institute of...
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| Editorial: Reject Jazia Unequivocally |
Editorial: Reject Jazia Unequivocally
The Editorial Team
In one of the most shocking incidents, Sikh families were forced to leave their homes in the Orakzai area of Pakistan after the Taliban demanded the payment of jazia. It was in the wake of the Pakistan parliament passing the Sharia law for Malakand Division of the Northwestern Frontier Province on April 13 that the Taliban imposed jaziya (an Islamic tax to non-Muslims) on the Sikh community (a very tiny religious minority in Pakistan) demanding Rs 50 million. In the fac...
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| Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 6 | Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 6
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
But history tells us a completely different thing. During lifetime of the Prophet, Arabia was a land of semi-civilized pastoral and nomadic people; hence Allah's law, revealed in the Koran, was adequate for solving any problem arising out of the simple Arabian society.. But after Muhammad's death, particularly during the reign of the second caliph Umar, Muslims had conquered many countries, including Egypt and Syria, advanced in civilization with a complex and well-org...
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