A Deobandi in RSS: The story of Maulana Waseem-ur-Rehman
I don’t know how many of you came across this story of a graduate from Deoband making it through the UPSC Civil Services Examinations The story is good and inspiring but the odd thing...
Author: B Shantanu
Must we separate religion from politics?
This post was inspired by Hrishi and Dnyanesh’s comments�which I am reproducing below. The point raised by Hrishi was (essentially) that democracy and politics (of the modern kind) is incompatible with religion… *** Comment...
On Iran, Anti-Semitism and the Twelfth Imam
Yesterday, I was alerted to this news-report from earlier this week in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was quoted as saying: the state of Israel will cease to exist with or without the involvement of his country....
The missing “T-word”
Did anyone notice the missing “T-word”? From JK: Six militants killed; blast on Amarnath route …Six militants were killed across Kashmir in separate incidents on Monday. From Four militants killed in J&K encounter: …Four...
Will an Obama-style campaign work in India?
First, some excerpts from Internet key to Obama victories, by Steve Schifferes © BBC MMVIII “With Barack Obama moving close to victory in the Democratic presidential primary campaign, the internet has proved one of...
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