Thanks to Krishen-ji for alerting me to this article (he forwarded me the link with this subject line: “…None so blind as those who will not see”). So true.
*** Excerpts from Islam’s European Conquest: Is America Next? by John Griffing ***
…Britain, birthplace of parliamentary democracy, has fallen to Islam. Oxford, once home to the likes of C.S. Lewis, now houses a giant Eastern Islamic Studies Center. If this were the only Islamic addition to Oxford, the mood would be less somber, but when Oxford citizens are forced …

How the urban young are rediscovering Sanskrit:
…”Bhagini, shighram, shighram gachchami,” mutters someone, giving me a gentle nudge from behind. Translated, that means: move faster, sister. I’ve been told I’m slow before, but never in Sanskrit. The guy getting late for class, whose way I’m blocking, is tall, with an apologetic smile, a shaven head, a choti, and a forehead smeared with tilak. The rest of him is hip young Gen X Indian—cool T-shirt, stylish bracelet and frayed-edge jeans that end at his bare feet.
…There are others like him. Bangalore-based Sanskrit …

This post has been long overdue…It is a very small attempt at saying “Thank You” to those whose toil has made my blog a bit more friendlier, nicer and useful.
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It is truly sad that these three news-reports came were published within days of each other. I do hope that there is at least some outrage from reformists and Muslim liberals on these issues.
Excerpts from Afghan Husbands Win Right to Starve Wives by Robert Mackey (17th August):
…Last week…Human Rights Watch discovered that a revised version of the Shiite Personal Status Law had been quietly put into effect at the end of July (in Afghanistan)…Shiite men in Afghanistan now have the legal right to starve their wives if their sexual …

I was thinking of writing this post later this week (after going through almost 100 pages of reading material I have accumulated. However, recent events – including Arun Shourie’s impromptu press conference yesterday – have forced my hand.
I will add the points I wanted to make in my original post via the comments section. For now, I want to open this thread to prompt a discussion on the apparent unraveling of the only credible opposition to Congress. It feels like this is the beginning of the end for BJP.
I would …

From an interview of Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Group (emphasis mine):
Q: And beyond business, what’s on your mind?
A: Business is the only canvas available to me. I am not a trained scientist or a lawyer.
Q: What about politics?
A: Politics is one way of nation building. Sitting in this room five years ago, I would have said yes, I’ll consider that seriously. But by and by, that has gone away. It’s not on the table anymore.
Unfortunate, really.
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