Modi phenomenon and the two Indias
Modi is seen as the leader by doers and achievers while he is hated by hangers on with colonial values who depend on patronage from the ruling family calling itself the Congress. They fear having to live in a world More...
Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
The collapse of the Aryan Invasion Theory
There is widespread misconception in India that all Western scholars support the Aryan invasion theory. Actually, it is minority view while the few still interested in ancient India have given up the AIT. Here is More...
Why Did U.S. Security Fail in Benghazi?
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz On the night of September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, a revolutionary focus in liberated Libya, was attacked by terrorists. U.S. Ambassador John Christopher More...
The Manipur’s Food and Friction Saga
Today Manipur was in news. I saw a big article on Mary Kom in a national news paper; a few days back she was walking the ramp, a few weeks prior to that she was a proud recipient of the Olympic bronze backing her More...
“Cowboy Rides Away” as George Strait announces final tour
(Reuters) – “King of Country” George Strait announced his final tour on Wednesday, but said he wasn’t retiring and would go on making records for as long as he could. Singer George Strait More...
“Neo-Salafi” Fallacies And Muslim Reaction to Insults Against Muhammad
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz The majority of the world’s Muslims – especially spiritual Sufis, but also traditional, conservative, moderate, and conventional believers – object to naming as “Salafis” More...
No more Mr. Clean II: The Coalgate Conspiracy
The UPA Government’s OPERATION COALGATE, selling off thorium, as well as starving the solar power sector was a deliberate plan to create energy scare and sign the Indo-U.S. deal to sell obsolete nuclear technology More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
Nervous Libyans ready for first taste of democracy
Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under More...
