Emboldened Islamists Call for Theocracy in America
The Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) held its 2019 annual convention on July 5-7 in Philadelphia, USA. Just as with last year’s conference — also held in the nation’s birthplace —…
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A Very Brief History of Bharatiya Science
The annual Indian Science Congress, which just concluded, had its usual share of controversies about history of Bharatiya science and I have been asked to weigh in. It so turns…
A for Adam, B for Bible, teaches SD Eaden Matriculation school at Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu
SD Eaden Matriculation Higher Secondary School at Vadalur in Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu has invited a controversy as the English handbooks were seen promoting Christianity. As reported by the Tamil News…
Why Bharat needs to no longer be an Ashokan republic, but a Chanakyan one
Kautilya, also called Chanakya, is often called Bharat’s Machiavelli. But this colonial-era epithet is grossly unfair. For all his fame, Niccolò Machiavelli was a small-time political adviser…
China Trying To Destroy Tibetan Buddhism By Deciding The Next Dalai Lama
To China’s propagandists pushing the line that atheist Beijing is the true arbiter of Tibetan Buddhism, here’s a counter from none other than Lobsang Sangay, the Sikyong or head of…
Yes to Nationalism, No to Imperialism
Yoram Hazony’s breathtakingly counterintuitive book, The Virtue of Nationalism (Basic Books), corrects a simple but colossal mistake: The Nazi monstrosity, he argues, did not result from nationalism but from imperialism. Hitler aspired…
Hindus don’t Rest-in-Peace (RIP)
It has become fashionable nowadays to say or type RIP whenever we hear of someone’s death. This is particularly so in the social media circuit. Like we have imported and…
“Should Proselytization of Children be allowed in Canadian Public Schools?” a Principal Asks
1976 was my last year at Principal Sparling, a little elementary school in the West End of Winnipeg. It was also the first year that Winnipeg…
Ram Swarup: The Hindu View of Education
Mr. Chairman, sisters and brothers, first I thank the organisers of this convention for inviting me here this evening and thus providing me an opportunity of being with you. When…
Hindu sisters Reena and Raveena become face of forced religious conversion in Pakistan
Ajbi Lal sat quietly weeping outside an Islamabad court while she waited to learn if her teenage daughters would be returned to her. People passing by pointed and laughed at…