NANDIGRAM Left Puts Saffron to Shame

DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI comments on Nandigram violence and concludes that the Left has put the Saffron to shame in many respects....

Scientific Achievements-I From1946 to1996

In the late 1890s a conference of physicists was held in Paris, France, wherein the discussion ended in proclaiming that there was nothing left to be discovered. The scientists had already discovered the atom, the smallest particle of an element, and...

Suicide Epidemic The Invisible Enemy of US Army

Sometimes armies lose war without actually facing the real enemy. The defeated nation then fails to make out as to what led to their rout in the battlefield. We had a very glaring example of one such decimation of mammoth army at the hands of non-exi...

Why Muslims Lag Behind

In the Hindustan Times of November 3, 2007 Mr. Khushwant Singh’s assertion that the entire Muslim community of India is lagging behind just because some of its women observe purdah, seems to be very innocent. For his kind information I may add ...

Science: A Matter of Reality

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
If to most people, religion was, and continues to be, a jumble of mysteries, science is all too human an effort to deal with reality as it exists in ...

Communal Politics Causes Threat to Secular India

The most serious threat to democracy is religious extremism and its growing roots in a country like India. In fact, India is a country of democratic and secular values. Multicultural diversity and religious harmony are the most important aspects of i...

Empowerment through Accountability

The Sachar Committee Report has dispelled the myth of minority appeasement and revealed the utter state of backwardness of the Muslim community in all spheres of life due to systematic negligence and deliberate discrimination by those controlling the...

Between Ballots and Bullets Two Sides of Islamists in Pakistan

There are four provinces in Pakistan, besides Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Waziristan and Pak-Occupied Kashmir. In two out of these four states an alliance of Islamic parties, Muttahida Majlis-Amal (MMA) is in power. Though population...

Setusamudram Project Another Ayodhya in the Making

The Central Government’s filing of affidavit on the Setusamudram Project on September 10-11, 2007 provided enough ammunition for the BJP and its associates, who had been sitting idle without any mass appeal issue since 2004. The BJP thought it ...