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This was The Beginning…

….and the world remained silent…. For those of you who are not old enough to remember how it all started, here is a brief excerpt from The bushfire of Hindu rage (emphasis mine): …For...

Fascinating: Terrorism and Public Opinion in Pakistan

Courtesy, this article on the CounterTerrorism Blog, I came across this fascinating survey conducted almost exactly a year ago which has some revealing insights. A small sample: 33% Pakistanis view Taliban, Al-Qaeda and radical Pakistani Jihadi...

If only we were Chinese…

Prompted by this excerpt from Gautam Mukherjee’s Op-Ed in “The Pioneer”, “Assert India’s Hindu identity”: If only we were Chinese, we wouldn’t have a Jammu & Kashmir problem at all. If we were Chinese,...

Recommended Weekend Reading

Some good links for the weekend: Excerpts from the Pak army and the jihadi’s second coming: Read in the context of recent incidents of ceasefire violation along the LOC and the controversy surrounding Gen...

Why are our temples so dirty?

This is a post from more than three years ago but bears repetition…I was harshly reminded of this in the course of a recent conversation with someone about the trek to Mata Vaishnodevi’s shrine...