Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement

Nanopost of the day…

Courtesy, Sridhar Pai: The MP High Court orders government *not* to make Surya Namaskar and Pranayam mandatory for students… …even as yoga for kids is now being taught in studios from Minnetonka, USA to...

Secular Harit Desh – Guest post by Sanjay

Thanks to Sanjay for woving this guest post around a recent column by M J Akbar that left me aghast. *** “Secular Harit Desh” by Sanjay *** MJ Akbar, the celebrity journalist, editor (Sunday...

Who are these “Christian Converts”?

Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians. Is this not discrimination on the...

Correcting “History” – one bit at a time

Yesterday morning, while reading Jamiat has undone its past good work by Javed Ansari, I got stuck at the very first sentence: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is one of countless organisations that claim to represent...

On Religious Freedoms and Secularism – Part II

Dear All: I am opening this second thread to continue the discussion over from On Religious Freedoms and Secularism. I am reproducing the last few comments to maintain continuity in the discussion. I believe...