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| Editorial: Godhra Verdict Out |
Editorial: Godhra Verdict Out
The Editorial Team
A special fast track court has pronounced its judgment. The court has convicted thirty one persons for the Godhra carnage that had taken place nine years ago. In one of the most gruesome incident 57 Ramsevaks returning from Ayodhya after performing karseva were burnt alive a coach of Sabarmati express in Godhra. The charred body of Ramsevaks evoked strong reactions throughout Gujarat while sending a shock wave in the entire nation. It resulted in riots throughout Gujarat. The...
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| A Page From History |
A Page From History
Anirban Ganguly
An early proponent of the concept of cultural-nationalism, Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) warned - without caring to be politically-correct - a century ago on the subversive missionary activities and the Hindu's proverbial tolerance of it, ‘...all that money, social influence, educational bribery and misrepresentation (of and by missionaries) can effect, is treated as legitimate...but even Hindu tolerance may some day be overstrained. Swami Abhedananda and his group...
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| Hindu Samhati Congregation Creates History |
Hindu Samhati Congregation Creates History
From VOIF Correspondent
The word history has lots of definitions. While on one hand it is an aggregate of past events; on the other it also denotes discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings and to some extent, gamut of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future. To put it briefly, all these aresaid to make people comprehend the main view of this article. Well, it depends on the people how would they classify it bu...
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| Arab Upheaval - Is it the Storm of Democracy in the Islamic World? |
Arab Upheaval - Is it the storm for democracy in the Middle East?
R. Upadhyay
The core demand of the leaders of the on going upheaval in Islamic countries of the Middle East is democracy and end of authoritarian rule responsible for unemployment, corruption, nepotism etc. The media and leaders of democratic world while expressing concern over uprisings against the authoritarian rulers have been giving them wise advice for establishment of ‘real democracy' in the region. But in view of the authoritarianism rooted to the civilisational ethos of Arab worl...
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| Chinese Threat Looms Large | Chinese Threat Looms Large
Ashok K Mehta
Recently one of the television channels reported that Defence Minister AK Antony had asked the armed forces to be prepared for a two-front war. Lately he has cautioned on China's Defence Budget, PLA modernisation and burgeoning infrastructure in Tibet, but at the same time he has noted that all this is not a worry. This kind of ambiguous talk on China has become the style and substance of this Government when Chinese assertiveness in respect of India is getting conspicuously sharp...
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