Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement

Unintended or deliberate? The missing “H-word”…

I picked up this story on intellibrief. Addressing the audience during his recent visit to Deoband, Shri Rahul Gandhi said:� “I only see every individual here as an individual. They are all Hindustanis. Who...

On Taslima Nasreen, fatwas and burqas…

Khushwant Singh recently�penned an article in HT (“A room and a thought to spare“, Feb 16 ’07)) �strongly supporting�Tasleema Nasreen to stay in India beyond the expiry of her visa. Excerpts below (emphasis mine):...

Literacy rates and “first claims”…UPDATED

UPDATE: Added some excerpts from Vivek Gumaste’s article below. Came across this very well written post, “The sachar muslim literacy rate puzzle” by RealityCheck India recently. In this thoroughly researched piece, RealityCheck explodes the...

Afzal-giri vs. Gandhi-giri

This has to be the statement of the year (courtesy Farooq Abdullah, former J&K Chief Minister): If Afzal is hanged, he will become a hero for centuries to come. The nation will go up...

Weekend catch-up on Blogosphere

One of the things I am hoping to get better at (and do more of) is a quick (but broad) sweep of the blogosphere to pick up posts from fellow bloggers that I find interesting...