Travesty as tribute
A. Surya Prakash
Pioneer
The 25th anniversary of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31 spawned a great deal of nostalgia about her and gave the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government yet another opportunity to tom-tom her ‘achievements’. The newspapers were full of advertisements eulogising her. Several Union Ministries vied with one another to pay [...]
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November 3, 2009
** Travesty as tribute
September 28, 2009
** Durga Puja in Rome?
In Rome, Durga is not welcome
Kanchan Gupta
ivarta.com
What does it mean to celebrate Durga Puja in Rome? It means to be humiliated, harassed and hounded by city officials who happen to be pious Christians. Alright, I could be utterly wrong in presuming they are pious since I have no independent confirmation of their piety or otherwise. [...]
July 7, 2009
** Wolf in sheep’s clothing
Atma Jyoti Ashram: Wolf in sheep’s clothing
By Swami Devananda Saraswati
Organiser Weekly
The sponsorship of Ramana Ashram and the publication of the Atma Jyoti Ashram brothers’ articles under assumed Hindu names in the Ramana Ashram journal Mountain Path is not really surprising. Sri Ramana Ashram is a family business headed by a hereditary trustee. The current president [...]
May 13, 2009
** Tilak on Gita Rahasya
http://www.kamat.com/database/articles/gita_rahasya.htm
How I came to write the “GITA RAHASYA”
by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Reproduced from Bhavan’s Journal
It is now nearly 43 years since I made my first acquaintance with the Bhagavadgita. In 1872, during the last illness of my father, the task of reading out to him a Prakrit commentary on the Bhagavadgita called Bhasavivrtti fell to [...]
February 5, 2009
** Godhra:The True Story
GODHRA: THE TRUE STORY
Nicole Elfi, jaia-bharati.org
Godhra, a city of the Indian State of Gujarat, was the lead story in all Indian newspapers on February 27th-28th, 2002.
A shattering piece of news: 58 Hindu pilgrims had been burned alive in a train. “57 die in ghastly attack on train” ran the Times of India’s headline;
“Mob targets [...]
April 30, 2008
** LTTE-Sonia link ?
An LTTE-Sonia family link?
S. Gurumurthy,Newindpress
April 29 2008
The LTTE suicide squad did plan and eliminate Rajiv Gandhi. But, why did the LTTE do it? Was there a larger conspiracy that extended beyond the LTTE as the strike force?
Was the LTTE the author of the crime or the mercenary for some one else or for [...]
