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28 Nov 2010
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| The Taliban’s Social Wars |
The Taliban’s Social Wars
D. Suba Chandran
The Taliban has been involved in a bloody insurgency in Afghanistan and its franchisees a calibrated war within Pakistan. The primary focus of this war has been on the engagements between the Taliban insurgents and the militaries. What has gone unnoticed or under-noticed are the other wars that the Taliban and its franchisees are fighting on the social front. At least, three specific social wars of the Taliban need to be understood and countered; else the social scars these wi...
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| What is Radical Islam? |
What is Radical Islam?
Dharamveer
First of all, nothing the radical Islamists say is outside the Kuran and Hadith. The Kuran and Hadith are the pillars of Islam, not only of radical Islam. That poses a serious problem. Because no muslim body has ever stated that parts of the Kuran and Hadith are now "outdated" or "irrelevant." The Hadith, for instance, gives numerous instances of rape of female captives captured after defeating infidels, in the presence of Mohammed. Since Mohammed is considered the perfect person and...
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| If No JPC, Then A Judicial Commission |
If No JPC, Then A Judicial Commission
Amba Charan Vashishth
Democracy is a rule by majority yet, at the same time, not a dictatorship of the majority. Neither is it a whim of the majority nor its arrogance and intoxication of power. It is a rule by consensus in a spirit of give and take. Transparency is the soul of democracy. Denial of the right to information and to know the truth on the strength of road-roller of majority is the curse of a dictatorship, not a virtue of a democracy. But that is what seems to be happening in India...
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| Unravelling The 2G Scam | Unravelling The 2G Scam
Vivek Debroy
What is the Public Accounts Committee? This is how the Lok Sabha Secretariat defines it: "The Committee on Public Accounts is constituted by Parliament each year for examination of accounts showing the appropriation of sums granted by Parliament for expenditure of Government of India, the annual Finance Accounts of Government of India, and such other Accounts laid before Parliament as the Committee may deem fit such as accounts of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies (except...
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| Hindu SC Families Get Persecuted in Kolkata | Hindu SC Families Get Persecuted in Kolkata
From Hindu Samhati
Surely you have perceived the presence of a few Muslim families amid a Hindu neighborhood and their untroubled livelihood as a result. What may happen if there is any reverse? Life becomes unbearable completely and the same is happening with 5 Taphsili families at the moment in Jamalpur village, near Birla Crossing, of Police Station Budge Budge, S 24 Parganas, West Bengal. These families belong to the impoverished Purakaits, living in the ocean of Muslim neighborhood....
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