Terrorism is good business! Someone saying that deserves to be shot in the head. Think again! How much so ever one abhors hearing this; the grotesque fact remains that terrorism today survives primarily due to two factors – easy availability of money and the easy availability of weapons. As far as the men and women … Continue reading
This is an article by Mr. Ram Madhav is a former spokesperson for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh appearing in www.rediff.com. ———————– The attack on the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team is brutal and reprehensible. It is just the latest. That Pakistan has become a sanctuary and safe haven for all kinds of sundry … Continue reading
South Asia will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the World Bank-IMF Global Monitoring Report. Though much of the world, including South Asia, is set to cut extreme poverty in half by the due date of 2015, prospects are gravest for the goals of reducing child and maternal mortality, with serious shortfalls … Continue reading
Can religion actually define nationalist identity. No! Because otherwise the whole of Europe and America and some more parts of the world would have been one nation. So is the theory that religion defines nationalist identity flawed in its core. Various political leaders for generations across the world have tried to define people on the … Continue reading
In the backdrop of the first even first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi it is natural to speak of the long cultural relations that India shares with the African continent. For centuries, not withstanding the social stigma of travelling across the seven seas; Indians have traversed to distant lands, be it in the form … Continue reading
Fears have been expressed on the very possible takeover of Pakistan by Taliban forces. The acceptance of this fear has come from no one lesser than the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who told CBS television network in an interview, “We are aware of the fact … Taliban… (is) trying to take over the state … Continue reading
The world is living on the edge and we have no one to blame but our apathy. Far away from most of us, in the killing fields on Swat there is an uneasy calm. The gentle moaning of people coming to terms with the harsh reality of having to live under the tough Islamic jurisprudence. … Continue reading
