The VHP leaders including Giriraj Kishore and the Union Minister, Uma Bharti, quickly jumped to the cause of defending the gods from heretics. Ms. Bharti compared the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, ...

In a recent public conversation with press persons Chief Minister of Kerala, Mr A K Anthony has accused Kerala’s minority communities of “cornering undue benefits through political arm-twisting”. He ...

What if their gods stop listening to their cries or their gods become the instruments of their oppressors? Over the last four decades, nearly two million black Americans rejected Christianity to ...

offered to ally with dalits. It has put forward as an attractive formulation, Shiv Shakti+Bhim Shakti=Deshbhakti (Shiv Power+Bhims Power= Patriotism, Shiv Senas clout+ Dalits clout=Patriotism)).

It is dangerous to assume that the suffering of Iraq's people, from Iraqi government policy as well as from 12 years of inept sanctions, could not get any worse. A military attack on Iraq could worsen ...

Kerala Chief Minister A. K. Antony is a sad man now. Not because his policemen opened fire on agitating Tribals, including women and children, on February 19 at Muthanga forests in Wayanad district, ...

secure and less healthy lives than their Hindu counterparts. Census figures paint a bleak picture of their plight. In rural India, 29% of Muslims earn less than $6 a month, compared with 26% of Hindus ...

Viewing the Iraq war from Latin America, one finds little hesitancy here about focusing on the economic motives of the intervention. In contrast, back home, many Americans seem embarrassed even to ask ...

Known as "the Cheney report," after its principal author, the Vice President, the document revealed that imported supplies accounted for half of US oil consumption in 2000 and will jump to two-thirds ...

That two graves, and a Muslim settlement, of pre-Babar provenance, have been unearthed in Ayodhya proves quite a few, but unintended, points. However, it wil leave the saffronazis unfazed. When all ...

War, the expression goes, is a bad business. It's certainly not a good idea if you're a soldier or civilian caught in the middle of one, and it tends to raise havoc with things like domestic spending.