Category: Current Affairs

The last word on “Water”

This is by a long shot one of the best critiques that I have come across of “Water”. It is balanced and makes all the points in a crisp, logical way Please read and...

“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...

A grass-roots response to Naxal terror

Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a Mumbai-based academy for training and research recently( Feb 14, �07) organised a Seminar in New Delhi on �Innovative Strategies to counter Naxalism: Experiment of Salva Judum.��� I received a summary...