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Islam at the crossroads
Islam that is being practised today looks different to that preached by Prophet Mohammed 1422 years ago. Practising Muslims all over the world may be following the five basic tenets of this great religion strictly but the Talibanisation of Islam h ad started long before the Pakistani ISI, the American CIA and the Saudi secret service created Talibanism to achieve their respective ignoble political ends. More
A solution to Ayodhya dispute
QUITE OFTEN, the role of religion in the matter of maintaining peace and inter-religious harmony in many countries is considered to be rather a negative one. As pertinently pointed out by Jonathan Swift, people seem to have enough religion just ... More
In defence of POTO
EVERY AGE, nation and society had its own forms of terrorism and devised its own "necessary and inevitable" allegedly "draconian" laws to handle them. Thucydides said, "of the Gods we believe, and of the men we know, that by a necessary law of ... More
Fictional agriculture of environmentalists
THE ARTICLE by Vandana Shiva "Biotech as bio-terror" (The Hindu, November 11) was appallingly biased. The visual in the article showed "anti-globalisation activists" (a glorified term for environmental activists) gleefully vandalising a ... More



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