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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...

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...

Hinduism – NOT “monotheism in disguise”

A few weeks ago, I came across a provocative comment by Richard Dawkins which mentioned that polytheism in Hinduism is essentially “monotheism in disguise”. The comment prompted this post “Is Hinduism Monotheism in Disguise?”...

SRK: “Jihad…a small little word”

Came across this quote by SRK in a recent rediff interview (emphasis mine): ” If some person is using the name of Islam and confusing it with jihad, I think one needs to understand...