Author: B Shantanu

“A new terror trail leads to Nepal”

By Vishwa Mohan, Sunday,m Feb 12, ’06 Online at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1411056.cms NEW DELHI: The rising number of Islamic institutions in some Nepal districts on the border with this country is giving Indian forces sleepless nights....

“1900 madrassas mushrooming along Indo-Nepal border”

A slilghtly dated – but still frightening – newsreport. This reminds me of the essay that I penned sometime back on the “Arc of Islam” (see about halfway down the page): http://hindu_dharma.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_hindu_dharma_archive.html   ******************* Friday,...

“Water” and Distorted Perceptions about Hinduism…

A letter written by Vrndavan Parker to the “Seattle Weekly” “regarding their review of (Deepa) Mehta’s Hindu-Bashing hate film ‘Water.’” In the preface to the post on Yahoo-Groups, Vrndavan said that there was a...

Expropriation of Hindu Concepts and Traditions…

On Yahoo-groups, a posting on how archetypical Hindu concepts and traditions like “Ayurveda” and “Yoga” are being expropriated by others and consciously (but in a subtle manner) being de-linked from the land and the...

Excerpts from “Search for a Hindu Agenda”

In a recent issue of Organiser, Subramanian Swamy wrote “Search for a Hindu Agenda” Some excerpts from the original article below: *** “A virile Hindu Agenda must have two components: [1] What Hindus should...