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24 May 2009
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| Editorial: Near Clear Mandate to UPA |
Editorial: Near Clear Mandate to UPA
The Editorial Team
Belying all speculations the Indian electorates have delivered a near clear mandate in favour of Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The pollsters and the political parties were stunned alike as the results started trickling in - no one had expected a result in which left and third front was routed, BJP damaged while Congress and its allies like TMC made unexpected gains. While political analysts might be engaging themselves burning midnight oil understanding the...
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| Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 7 | Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 7
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
When the 5th part of the present article appeared in various websites, a reader commented, "Muhammad was a "God Father". His cut was 20% of the loot. Are you still wondering why so many Muslims are criminals?" Perhaps, he is correct. Though each and every Muslim, whether he personally believes or not, has to admit that Muhammad was the greatest man ever appeared on earth and his behaviour is the model (usha-in-hasna) for every Muslim, for the ...
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| BJP Apes Congress, Fails |
BJP Apes Congress, Fails
Dr. Koenraad Elst
With great satisfaction, the world has taken note of the defeat of the Hindu nationalists: "The Indian voter has rejected Hindu chauvinism." Subtleties such as the likelihood that the BJP has been abandoned by many of its supporters for not being Hindu chauvinist enough, don't come into the picture. The typically Indian failures of the BJP that explain its defeat, I now leave to Indian authors to discuss. What has caught my attention is a trait the BJP shares with Right-wing p...
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| Lessons for the BJP from the 2009 Elections |
Lessons for the BJP from the 2009 Elections
Anil Ketkar
The BJP's past win in Parliamentary elections in 1999 was based not on diluting Hindutva, but on making it strident. The BJP had two seats in 1984, then came Advani ji's Rath Yatra and the seat numbers increased to 90 and then to 181. This was when the Hindutva plank was assertively used - although it was the Ram Mandir that was the core issue and not anti-terrorism per se, but then it was a terrorist Mir Baqi under instructions from his leader Babar who had demolished the Ram Mandi...
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| In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful – I |
In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful – I
Adity Sharma
As Muhammad became disillusioned from the strife between the Pagan Meccans around him, he began to feel more and more aloof from the society in which he had been brought up. Soon, he began to experience religious visions which slowly but surely burgeoned in to a world religion of Islam focused primarily around the Quran and Hadiths. After Muhammad conquered Mecca, Islam began to spread in earnest, most of the times through questionable and brutal methods such as military conquest, ...
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