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27 Dec 2009
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| Editorial: Should the Martyr be Hanged? |
Editorial: Should the Martyr be Hanged?
The Editorial Team
Kavita Karkare's poem, "Do not become a martyr in this country" aptly describes the sad state of affairs in the country. She proceeds to question, "Should the martyr be hanged? Or should he be kept alive?" summing up the gross insensitivity of the system and the politicians who seek to reap dividends in the name of martyrs while insidiously betray the trust of their families and nation. Kavita Karkare is the wife of martyred ATS Chief Hemant Karkare who laid his life facing t...
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| What is Jihad |
What is Jihad
SS Bedi
The Arabic word Jihad is derived from the root word Jahada (struggle). Jihad has come to mean an offensive war to be waged by Muslims against all non-Muslims to convert them to Islam on the pain of death. Jihad is enjoined on all Muslims by the Quran. I bring you the history of the Islamic Jihad from a neutral and factual viewpoint. I am against all forms of fanaticism - religious and non-religious. But the emotional appeal of non-religious fanaticism like Nazism, Fascism or Communism i...
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| Alien System is Alien to Indian Ethos |
Alien System is Alien to Indian Ethos
Amba Charan Vashishtha
Rightly, there is great resentment against the retired Haryana Director-General of Police, SPS Rathore, getting off with a smile for his crime of molesting a budding tennis player Ruchika Girhota who felt so much humiliated that ultimately she committed a suicide. The culprit definitely is Rathore, but more than that is the system of criminal jurisprudence which we have inherited from the British and earlier invading regimes. Our further crime was to blindly adopt and acc...
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| The Death of Ratna | The Death of Ratna
 Aneeta Chakrabarty
They dragged her from her burning home amidst shrieking winds on a cold, moonlit night. She was sobbing, kicking, shouting, screaming and resisting her tormentors, five of them, many still in their army uniforms. She cowered desperately looking for a way out from the leering, sneering men, found a jagged stone and held on to it, hoping to aim it at the first coward's eyes. One of the men sprayed pepper. It stung her eyes. As she tried desperately...
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| Swami Dayananda, Hegel and Koran | Swami Dayananda, Hegel and Koran
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
Swami Dayanand Saraswati Natarajan was born in Manjakudi - Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu on August 15, 1930. He became interested in Vedanta after listening to the public talks of Swami Chinmayananda. He became involved with the Chinmaya Mission in various roles. He became a Sanyasi in 1962.In 1986, Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, a Gurukula that has branches in India and the United States. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam is an institute f...
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