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The ugly truth of Pakistan – David Frawley

Indians should stop trying to excuse Pakistan, feeling that its break-up would be dangerous, and face the fact that since Independence, with more jihadi and tactical nuclear weapons, Pakistan has only become worse. … Pakistan as a terrorist state now threatens the entire world. – Dr David Frawley Pakistan is always in an existential crisis, a […]

Three ugly truths revealed by the demonetisation chaos – R. Jagannathan

Still no cash in ATMs fifty days after large denomination notes were invalidated! The simple lesson should be that the State must become more trustworthy for citizens to learn to respect it. … The State has a long way to go before it earns the trust of its citizens enough to wean them off cash. […]

Is Mohenjodaro’s ‘Dancing Girl’ an image of goddess Parvati? – Praveen Shekhar

According to British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, “There is her little Baluchi-style face with pouting lips and insolent look in the eye. She’s about 15-years-old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself […]

Why Christianity has no reincarnation doctrine – Benjamin Creme

In 553 CE the Christian Emperor Justinian had Origen’s teachings on reincarnation banned at the Second Council of Constantinople.  “It seems reasonable to conclude that the so-called ban concerning the doctrine of reincarnation is the result of an historical error and contains no ecclesiastical authority whatsoever.” The German author, Peter Andreas, expresses this point of […]

Are jihadis to blame for attacking us? – Maria Wirth

If someone asks whether the newcomers to Europe even want a liberal world, he is shouted down. Never blame the migrants, is the maxim, and never ever claim that religion may be a cause why happily living together won’t work. To be precise: never mention Islam. One can criticize Christianity nowadays and malign Hinduism, but […]

Video: The ‘Islamophobia’ Lie – Black Pigeon

“Some liberal journalist would like you to believe that we do what we do because we’re simply monsters…. The fact is even if you would stop bombing us and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.” — […]

Righting a Historical Wrong: Bring back Bose and the INA on Rajpath – G. D. Bakshi

The post-Independence Intelligence Bureau (IB) and sections of the bureaucracy ostensibly remained loyal to the erstwhile British masters. For almost a quarter century after Independence, the IB kept reporting to MI-5 about the whereabouts and activities of Netaji’s kin. The INA men were treated as traitors and not taken back into the Indian Army. – Maj. […]

Five reasons to suspect that Jesus never existed – Valerie Tarico

“The arguments on both sides of this question—mythologized history or historicized mythology—fill volumes, and if anything the debate seems to be heating up rather than resolving. A growing number of scholars are openly questioning or actively arguing against Jesus’ historicity. Since many people, both Christian and not, find it surprising that this debate even exists—that […]

The Bhagavad Gita is best described as India’s national book – David Frawley

Dharma is not a matter of dogma, but of adapting our principles to what is required according to the changing needs of time, place and person in order to further the higher forces in the world. – Dr David Frawley The Bhagavad Gita remains the book that can be best described as India’s national book. […]

Demonetisation: Has Modi Sarkar scored a self-goal? – Punarvasu Parekh

Instead of devising ways to minimise the losses suffered by the citizenry, the bigwigs of the ruling party are busy promoting cashless transactions. All cash is not black money, all black money is not in cash. Yet the use of cash is being portrayed as something outdated and undesirable, if not immoral. – Punarvasu Parekh Modi […]