Home  Voice of India 18 Jul 2010
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| Guru Nanak was a Hindu |
Guru Nanak was a Hindu
 Dr. Koenraad Elst
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (16th century), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as wearing a pagari or turban, like his pupils (Sikh-s) today. But this is a recently-imposed convention, not followed in his own day and in subsequent centuries. In traditional paintings, the Gurus never wore turbans, a custom that even according to Sikh teaching itself was only instituted by the tenth and last Guru, Govind Singh, in 1699. All...
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| Joining the Dots |
Joining the Dots
 Dr. Shiv Shakti
Joel Stein might have gone ‘stomach-sick' for having hurt the sentiments of many through his article in Time, but some of his self appointed apologists have no qualms in suggesting that ‘Indians should learn to take themselves less seriously'. The advice is simple and clear that if Indians want to live and work in a globalised marketplace they should learn to be less hung up about culture and identity. And the advise comes with a warning too. If you want to wallow in...
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| Indian Caste System and American Pluralism, I |
Indian Caste System and American Pluralism, I
 Dr. M. Lal Goel
A recent article in Newsweek by Lisa Miller indicated that Americans "are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity." The author cites the following poll data: 67 percent of Americans believe that many religions, not only Christianity can lead to eternal life, reflecting pluralistic Hindu ethos rather than monotheistic Christian view; 30 percent of Americans call themselves "spirit...
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| Editorial: Attacks on Hindus Continue in Pakistan |
Editorial: Attacks on Hindus Continue in Pakistan
The Editorial Team
There is no end of woes for Hindus in Pakistan. The majority Muslim community attacks the minority Hindu community with impunity on any trivial pretext. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is even failing to take care of its less than 2% Hindu population and remains hand in glove with the Talibani agenda of forcing out the minorities from Pakistan. The society is so intolerant that it cannot allow even a tiny population of Hindus to live in peace. As reported by Times of India s...
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| A Time to Return Islam to Antiquity | A Time to Return Islam to Antiquity
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
Not a day passes by without the media reporting atrocities and murders perpetrated by Muslim terrorists in one or the other part of the world. Though not all Muslims are terrorists but Islam does seem to monopolize churning out of terrorists. Let us examine some of the reasons for the functioning of this violence-spreading factory. Prophet Mohammed's behavior is an example to all Muslims. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace in the mould of Buddha or Gandhi ...
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