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Wednesday, Jan 08,2014, 16:20 IST .
So often have I stumbled upon Facebook profiles or living
creatures that proudly proclaim their being ‘secular’, in the
‘Religion’ section/in a context of that, and I have always
wondered, “Isn’t ‘secularism’ an attribute that characterizes
states in their approach of treating their citizens equally
irrespective of their religion?” In the ..
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Monday, Feb 18,2013, 08:37 IST .
Lying seems to be a morbid obsession with all Narendra Modi
haters. Given all the lies that India’s mainstream media spread
about his involvement in post-Godhra riots, which contradicted
those very facts they’d themselves published earlier, as pointed
out
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Monday, Jan 07,2013, 16:51 IST .
“RSS is no different from Taliban”, screams a tweet [1] by
Shazia Ilmi, a prominent member of Arvind
Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party. The statement can be matched in
stupidity (or hatred) only by a similar one issued by Rahul Gandhi
over two years ago in which he had compared RSS with banned terror
outfit SIMI [2]. Rahul’s remark can be condoned as just ano..
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Tuesday, Sep 04,2012, 02:50 IST .
So much water has flown down the Ganga since 2002. Gujarat has
shone on the International map in so many fields, one can go on
speaking for whole day, and yet fall short of time while mentioning
its achievements over past decade. On the riots' front, not only
Gujarat observed its very first curfew free decade since it was
created, the 2002 riots have also seen speedy justice as per
Indian..
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Tuesday, Aug 14,2012, 17:59 IST .
This Saturday, 11th of August, 2012, will go down in Mumbai’s,
and India’s history as a day of shame and ignominy. On this day,
nearly 50000 muslim ‘protesters’, many of them armed with metal
rods and sticks, went on a rampage in Mumbai torching buses and
cars and media and police vehicles. Only that, Mumbai Police
commissioner already had enough intelligence input tha..
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Wednesday, May 30,2012, 17:25 IST .
Secularism is what we’re taught to be proud of, even at the
cost of our traditional Hindu identity. The choice between cultural
nationalism and constitutional secularism confuses a many. Let’s
drive through the shades of Indian secularism.
1. Not to Ram and Krishna, yes to Mohammad and
Jesus : In India, with 80% Hindu population, a..
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Tuesday, May 15,2012, 17:22 IST .
After grilling the witnesses and churning the facts to extract
the truth from them for 3 years, the Supreme Court appointed SIT
came up with its closure report that not only exonerates Gujarat's
longest serving and inarguably most successful Chief Minister
Narendra Modi from any criminal culpability in connection with the
riots' cases that it was formed to investigate, but also
virtua..
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Saturday, Apr 14,2012, 16:16 IST .
In his book, “Pakistan or the Partition of India”, towards the
end of Chapter 4, Ambedkar writes, “The Muslim
invaders, no doubt, came to India singing a hymn of hate against
the Hindus. … Its (Islam’s) growth is so thick in Northern India
that the remnants of Hindu and Buddhist culture are just shrubs.
Even the Sikh axe could not fell this oak...
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Saturday, Apr 14,2012, 13:07 IST .
Today’s the 121st Birth Anniversary of Dr. B R Ambedkar, known
as the father of India’s constitution, and an icon of Dalit
politics. B R Ambedkar has been the demigod who every politician
striving to project him/herself as the sympathiser of Dalits and a
champion of their rights, invokes. With that comes the word,
‘Manuwadi’, a supposedly derogatory term implying those..
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Thursday, Mar 15,2012, 00:34 IST .
Disclaimer: The aim of this article is not to offend
any religious sentiments, but to highlight an interesting analogy
that exists in present-day political arena and historical traits
of..
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Monday, Feb 27,2012, 12:11 IST .
February 27th, 2002 - That was the fateful morning when a mob of
a thousand Muslims burnt an entire coupe of Sabarmati Express
carrying Ramsewaks returning from Ayodhya Ram Janmbhoomi, to death!
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Wednesday, Dec 21,2011, 10:28 IST .
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Tuesday, Dec 20,2011, 22:42 IST .
So often have I stumbled upon Facebook profiles or living
creatures that proudly proclaim their being ‘secular’, in the
‘Religion’ section/in a context of that, and I have..