Deccan Chronicle Apologises - Hussain Doesn

On February 22 the Oscar awards were announced with the British film - Slumdog Millionaire - bagging a majority of them including two for its Indian music director. On February 24, the 'Deccan Chronicle' of Hyderabad had two prominent features: its first lead in large type described the Indian music director as

M. F. HUSSAIN

Should not the sentiments of a billion Hindus count in the debate on freedom of expression? The debate in general does not seem to have addressed some fundamental questions: ...
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NOBEL FOR OBAMA - DOWNSIDE FOR INDIA?

At about this time last year Obama was still campaigning, sweeping the world and his opponents in the floodtide of his ornate verbal imagery. The Indian media did not have enough of Obama...
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An LeT operation in J&K and a detention in the US

The following is the transcript of INTV’s Primetime News Debate on August 15, 2009. The day was quite eventful. A group of LeT terrorists surrounded, ...
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Evangelical Missionary War on Hindus

Christian missionaries in India enjoyed much support from European Christian colonial masters who controlled the political, economic and educational institutions for centuries, to 1947. With the active support of the European Christian colonialists, missionaries founded churches, large scale political organizations, and educational institution. Even after independence, political parties handed over Christians an influential position in India. Leaders of the Church became key advisers and also exercised political, economic, and educational functions as government leaders. They have penetrated and controlled several national institutions that were taking shape after independence.
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Is American Pluralism Inimical To Hindu Culture? Perspectives On A Paper By Dr. Jakob DeRoover

It is true that the task of preserving Hindu traditions is immense; the caricaturing of Hindu beliefs and traditions in American school texts is pernicious; and the negative stereotypes of India in the media are tenacious and pervasive. However, I disagree with the conclusion that this state of affairs is due principally to the intrinsic limitations of ?American pluralism.
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It Is Official Now - Romila Thapar Defends The Aryan Invasion Theory!

The Vedic peoples discriminated against the Dasa, a group of people who spoke a different language that did not sound at all like Sanskrit. The Brahmins sometimes made fun of the Dasa and said that they spoke as if they had no noses. (Pinch your nose and see what you would sound like.) The Dasa had wide flat noses and long curly black hair, and the Brahmins claimed that they had darker skin and called them uncivilized barbarians, who didn?t know how to behave.?
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Time for Robust India-Taiwan Economic Partnership

As India continues to pursue calibrated globalization and expand external linkages, this is an opportune time to economically engage Taiwan. It is an economy with a GDP of over US$300 billion and a per capita income of US$14,000. Taiwan is an integral and vital part of the globalized world, with particular strengths in manufacturing by small and medium enterprises, which accounts more than 90 per cent of its exports. In 2004, its merchandise exports were US$182 billion (2 percent of the world total, ranked 15th), while its merchandise imports were US$168 billion (1.8 percent of the world total, ranked 15th). In 2004, Taiwan ranked 24th in exports (worth US$26billion) and 20th in imports (worth US$30billion) in commercial services. It ranks in top five economies in foreign exchange reserves (US$255 billion). Its stock market capitalization is about US$450 billion.
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India's Intellectual Zombies

For centuries Hindu society has been active in producing intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, political theorists, artists, poets, spiritual leaders and life scientists. Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, destruction of Sanskrit education and Marxist influence had a disastrous influence on Hindu society. The social and psychological conditioning suffered by Hindus lead frequently to the erosion of cultural identity and the depersonalization of individuals. It is therefore, not surprising that the production of intellectuals dwindled. The repercussions of long period of Islamic oppression and colonization , in the wake of social and cultural disintegration and the trauma suffered by Hindus as a whole, persist even today. Everybody seem to agree that Hindu civilization is now facing a crisis. Entrenched forces from within and without have joined together to de-structure or destroy our thoughts , beliefs, practices and values.
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Let Israel be Jewish

Israel has allowed Daystar, a Texas-based Christian evangelical TV channel, to telecast into Israeli homes and attempt to proselytize Israel's five million Jews. Is this religious freedom or adding insult to the Jewish injury.
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