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:
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, ...
In any case newspapers are ...
I have not been commenting on political matters in India, though I happened to live and breathe politics from my childhood, when my father used to express his political faith through revolutionary activities like the members of the Anushilan Samiti (a pro-independence secret society against British) and Bengal Volunteer Force of Netaji Subhas Bose. I had been briefly associated with the Congress. I left it after realising that all ...
It was a Red Letter Day at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The Annual Convention of the Indian Muslim Council has awarded the Tipu Sultan Genocide Award to their most visible faculty member, Associate Professor Dr. Angana Chatterji. She received the award to the applause of distinguished guests representing the world...
As is their wont the secular exponents found in the recent Hindu-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka grist to their anti-Hindu mill. The violence in Orissa followed the brutal murder of a revered Hindu pontiff Swami Lakshmananda Saraswathi who happened to be the state vice president of the Viswa Hindu Parishat. He was murdered along with four other inmates of his Ashram including a woman devotee.
The happenings in Mangalore Karnataka were again true to form: a neo-convert pastor in Andhra Pradesh wanted to be lauded for being more loyal than the King. His pamphlet, the product of a prostituted, putrefied and suppurating mind portrayed Hindu gods and goddesses in the most obnoxious manner possible accusing them of incest, debauchery and worse. ...
The debate on ''art and freedom of expression'' triggered by protests against M. F. Hussein...
It is time to critique the state of the polity in India after 60 years of Swarajyam. The focus is naturally on the Congress Party which has dominated the political scene and has been the prime instrument in creating an environment of criminalized polity in the country....
What happens when the artistic freedom of an individual (or a famous painter) militates against the collective human rights of a multitude? This article raises certain pertinent questions about the observations of Indian courts which have been generally liberal in preserving individual freedoms vis-...
“Indian or Chinese?” Sounds like the polite query of a maitre d' as he conducts you to your seat in an expensive multi-cuisine restaurant? ...
