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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are always lessons to be learned after a war. Often governments and pundits focus only on lessons having to do with military strategies and tactics, such as troop deployments, engagement in ...

A close colleague of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld predicted the march to Baghdad would be "a cakewalk". We were told Saddam's troops would surrender. A few days before the war Vice-President ...

GAZA CITY - In order to kill a "targeted" Hamas activist, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Thursday, May 1, a densely populated Gaza City area, cordoned off a four-storey building and massacres ...