Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement

‘Recitation of Vande Mataram against Islam’…

From The Indian Express, as reported by PTI: “There are some lines in Vande Mataram which go against our religion,” Jilani said. However, Muslims had no problem in reciting the National Anthem, Jana gana...

Secularism or Politics of Appeasement?

A few weeks ago, I read this comment by Natwar Singh which he made during a recent speech. “Secularism in Western intellectual tradition has a clearly non-religious connotation while the Indian understanding, in contrast,...

More on Muslim Population Growth in India…

I recently came across a small booklet written by Dr Shrirang Godbole titled, “The Explosion in non-Hindu Population“. As the title suggests, the main theme of the book is the hyper-growth in non-Hindu populations...