The Egyptian Election and the Muslim Brotherhood
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz – On May 23-24, the “new Egypt” will hold its first presidential election. Voters will be presented with a daunting list of candidates, currently totaling 12 individuals, with five in the lead. If there is no clear victor, a second round of balloting will take More...
SL Bhyrappa on Distorting History: A Personal Account (Part 1)
Introduced and edited by Navaratna Srinivasa (NS) Rajaram, Contributing Editor Editor’s Note: In a previous FOLKS column a comparison was drawn between S.L. Bhyrappa’s controversial More...
Fatwa: Islam’s Murder by Fiat
Column by Amil Imani - Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most celebrated person with an Islamic bounty on his head and has been for decades. The man was condemned to death by Ayatollah More...
Bhyrappa & Dan Brown: Two Masters of Historical Fiction
S.L. Bhyrappa is India’s most popular novelist. He is a serious thinker schooled in philosophy… who brings his knowledge of history and philosophy to produce thought provoking More...
The Whiff of 1969
Column MJ Akbar - There is a straight connect between the knee and the tongue: Through the jerk. When a political knee jerks, it smashes into your chin, cuts your tongue More...
Democracy in India: Twenty Years After (Part II)
The recent assembly elections may mark a new watershed in Indian politics. It shows the ineffectiveness of ‘dynastic charisma’ as an election gimmick and a possible shift More...
A Perspective on Islam
Column by Amil Imani – I was born in a Muslim family that did not push religion down the kids’ throats. Yet, religion always cast a big shadow on everything. I just More...
The Himalayan Heist
Column by M.J.Akbar - Why do intelligent people commit murder? Hatred, envy, greed may be familiar primal motives, but desire remains many phases away from deed unless you More...
The Biggest Cover-up in American History
Column by Amil Imani with James H. Hyde - In our previous article, “Exonerating President Obama”, we noted that the only Supreme Court precedent for the meaning of the More...
Democracy in India: First Fifty Years (Part 1)
The evolution of Indian democracy in the first fifty years as seen from two perspectives— social and political. National parties have yielded to Mandalized politics leading More...
