Category: Politics and Governance

This is how China treats its religious minorities

Some of you may have picked up the news on Friday that US has (once again) included China in its list of  “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs) mentioned in the International Religious Freedom’s annual report*. ...

Crisis in Darfur – Who will bell the cat?

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the crisis in Darfur quoted in Guernica, June 2008: …I was there (in Darfur)…just one year ago nearly to the day, smuggling myself across the border with Chad, crossing 500, 600 kilometers of...

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....

Good News and Bad News – Part 2

First, the good news. Last week Freedom Team released the first issue of its magazine with the following preface: “…We all want a Great India. But why is there so much failure around us despite...

A draft policy framework for tomorrow’s India

Many of you read and commented on Sanjeev Sabhlok’s guest post on this blog re. the Freedom Team. The team has grown to about 25 members since then and there is an active and...