The evil now consuming Gujarat emerged from the BJP's communal 'laboratory experiments' in the state. The massacres of Muslims thus do not represent a failure but
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India, and its backup organisations, the Shiv Sena and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, would like to pretend that they stand up for the cow. But
India With the BJP having come to power at the centre, and having emerged as a formidable force all over North India, Christians are now fast joining Muslims and Dalits
Intolerance is the result of self-indulgence, and when religions turn their hack on their founding ideals.
A standard thesaurus list of the syn onyms for "intolerance" would in
Extremist Hindutva worming its way into the minds of the Indian masses is making intolerance look like a good habit.
The leopard does not change its spots. It was a
The root problem of divisiveness in the Subcontinent stems from the arrogant assumption of the contemporary (Aryan) exponents of aggressive Hinduism that they speak for the whole of India.
For
Sultan Mahmud of Ghaznin: A Study, from which the following column is extracted, is a 1927 publication brought out by the Aligarh Muslim University, where Mohammad Habib was Professor of
The Hindu Kingdom of Nepal, despite the religious signifier, actually has very little 'Hinduism' in its state structure even though the king is Hindu.
Nepal is said to
A Nepali idiom for ritual absurdity is biralo bandhney, or "tying the cat". It tells the story of a Brahmin performing the shraddha ceremony for his departed ancestor
Young Hindu boys and girls have a rich cultural heritage which they must try to understand as they prepare for life. In this article, an American friend who has lived
