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Kashmiri
Pandits: Groping in a Lightless Tunnel
Sreeram Chaulia
Even as some of the
poorest and most backward parts of Asia, Africa and South America are
realising the devastating impact of war on unarmed innocents sandwiched
inside borders, implementing legislation and inviting international aid
to succour the internally displaced, India, host to more than 350,000
Kashmiri Hindu IDPs, has callously avoided a policy that can lead to
durable solution of the violent tragedy afflicting a religious minority
hailing from Muslim-majority Kashmir.....More...
Rewriting History and Mahmud Ghaznavi
Vinod Kumar
Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed coalition came to power in
Delhi, "rewriting of history" has been a contentious issue. For over four
decades, Marxist historians have dominated writing of history books. They now
assert the BJP is rewriting history. They accuse the BJP (and the Sangh parivar)
of transforming "popular understandings of Indian history by changing the
content and manner of history teaching at the level of schools and colleges so
as to accord with its own Hindutva version of that history"......More...
Wahi: The
Supernatural Basis of Islam
Part VI -
Dr.
Somers’ diagnosis of Mohammed’s mental condition (2)
Dr. Koenraad ELST
Of all the
founders of religions, none has left a more detailed biography than the Prophet
of Islam. So, what useful information about Mohammed’s psyche can be distilled
from the core texts of Islam in order to give more body to our suspicion of a
paranoid condition?....More...
Footprints of Terror
Ajai Sahni
On March 1, 2003, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammad, one of the prime planners of the
9/11
attacks on the US, was arrested in Rawalpindi. The US authorities had been
pursuing him at least since his 1995 involvement in the abortive 'Operation
Bojinka' conspiracy to simultaneously blow up 12 American civilian airliners
over the Pacific, in which he collaborated with his relative, Ramzi Yousef, who
is currently serving a life sentence in America for the 1993 attack on the World
Trade Centre.........More...
APHC: The Nexus with
Terror
Praveen Swami
It has been evident, for years,
that the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir is an instrument of Pakistan's state
policy. Just how well structured the links between the institutions of the
Pakistani state and terrorism in India are, however, is only just beginning to
become clear.....More...
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