The dreaded “H-word” – excerpts
Came across this very well-written piece by Anish Shah in a recent issue of Hindu Voice UK. Worth a read. Excerpts below: “So I’ll start with a conversation I had a couple of years...
Author: B Shantanu
“India’s Islamist Groups” – Extracts
A very well researched piece on “India’s Islamist Groups” by Husain Haqqani (Published on Thursday, February 16, 2006) Source: http://www.futureofmuslimworld.com/research/pubID.38/pub_detail.asp Extracts: “Contemporary India is a Hindu-majority country, governed under a secular democratic constitution since 1947,...
Is a reformation within Islam finally under way?
A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought-provoking Op-Ed piece in Newsweek titled, “The Road to Reformation” (Feb 5 ’07) In that he wrote, “For those in the west asking when Islam will...
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US
Peter Beinart recently wrote an insightful and cautionary comment in TIME on the relationship between US and Saudi Arabia – especially in the light of the current situation in the Middle East. Read some...
Atoms, Neurons and Consciousness…
TIME Magazine recently ran a series of stories on the workings of the human brain which also explored consciousness, soul and afterlife (“Mind and Body Special Issue” Jan 29, ’07). Now, I am all...
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