Protecting the Children Forced to ‘Walk Among Snakes’: Looking Back From Newtown
Column by Stephen Schwartz - In the United States, mourning and debate over the horror at Newtown, Connecticut, continue. Although the number of victims was fewer, even microscopic by comparison, the massacre More...
Children of Mao’s wrath vie for power in China
By Chris Buckley (Reuters) – Forty five years before ambitious Chinese politician Bo Xilai fell from power accused of flirting with Cultural Revolution extremism, he stood as a teenager in front of a baying More...
Muslims Honor Birthday of Muhammad – Except in His Birthplace
Column by Stephen Schwartz - On January 24, the Islamic hijra month of Rabi Ul-Awwal began. During this month, traditional Muslims around the world will celebrate the birthday of Muhammad (peace be upon him). More...
Iranian Regime’s Trail of Terror
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Legal charges were entered in the U.S. last week against an Iranian-American dual citizen, Mansour Arbabsiar, 56, who had resided in Texas, and an Iranian living in his native More...
Tales on dividing India
The three books have one thing in common — that Partition was one of the most tragic moments in the history of the entire humanity, says Saradindu Mukherji Partition, Bengal and After: The Great Tragedy of India More...
Brand terror revisited
26:11 Operation Mumbai | Author: Atul Kulkarni ;Translator Uday Bopshetty | Publisher: Krish International | Price: Rs 200 Besides documenting and chronologically organising the events following the 26/11 terrorist More...
Reasons for decline of Buddhism in India
By B. Shantanu This article is primarily to refute a piece by Vir Sanghvi’s entitled “Ayodhya for dummies” which, according to him, was further to “younger readers’” having “annoyed by the refusal More...
Arabic and Persian Mahabharatha
By Pradip Bhattacharya PhD, IAS (Retd) The record of foreign invasions in India’s own history is not available in any systematic form. However, the references to foreign tribes are several, as in the Vashishtha-Vishvamitra More...
