Commentary

How Far Flung Naga Villages Celebrated Independence Day?

Dr. Moatoshi Ao gives a detailed account about how far flung Naga villages celebrated this year’s independence day indicating the days of conflict are over in the state and it has become part of the mainstream. The joy of celebrating …

Hindu Temples:What Happened To Them?

Noted historian Sita Ram Goel did pioneering work by bringing out a two volume publication “Hindu Temples: What happened to them(Vol.I and Vol.II)”. Both the volumes chronicle the destruction of Hindu temples over the last 1200 years. Here are excerpts …

The Wahhabi Code:How Saudis Spread Extremism Globally

  An eye-opening, look at the source of the current wave of Saudi Arabian-sponsored terrorism, how it spread, and why the West did nothing. Here is the truth about ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and more. Lifting the mask of international …

100 Years Of Khilafat Movement In India: Dispelling Manufactured Cotton-Candy discourse

There is an urgent need to dispel the manufactured cotton-candy discourse on the Khilafat Movement. Make no mistake; the Khilafat Movement has relevance because the mindset that set it in motion 100 years ago is still at work. This mindset …

China’s India war: How China took India and the world for ride

Bertil Lintner’s brilliant book ‘China’s India War’ busts several myths about what we all know about India and China relations till now especially in context of 1962 war. We are also sharing an excerpt from the book after a brief …

RSS leads from the front for relief work during lockdown

Following the outbreak of the Chinese virus pandemic and the ongoing lockdown, the social organization I am associated with,has taken up the task to distribute dry ration to the needy and affected people. I have been part of their effort …

Swami Vivekananda: Words of Wisdom for the Youth

By Nikhil Yadav   Swami Vivekananda and his words were so rich with wisdom and pragmatic lessons of life that well-known scholar and Nobel Prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore, once said “if you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him, …

Faiz Ahmad Faiz: A Fanatic Muslim who loved Jinnah, hated India

Faiz Ahmad Faiz(1911-1984) was a renowned poet who is being projected as a Progressive thinker, writer poet from Pakistan but contrary to this common perception, his writings reflect that he was he was a fanatic Muslim who pushed for partition …

Why we need Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019

Hindus and other non-Muslim minorities have been suffering genocides in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan since 1947. So they need to be granted citizenship of India when they land here to escape persecution. The proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill would facilitate this. …

Lesson from 2019 polls: Mocking ‘Hinduness’ won’t work

The unprecedented victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections 2019 is a real victory for Indians. Political parties in India were used to treating citizens as voters belonging to a particular caste or community. But voters …

Urban Naxals hijacking sore losers to object over EVMs

A concerted campaign against authenticity of Electronic Voting Machines used in the Lok Sabha polls 2019 has been launched by the Opposition parties in India. The campaign is a cause of great concern as it undermines the credibility of an …

Samjhauta Blast Case: Creating False bogey of Hindu Terror

The bogey of “Hindu terror” stands busted with the acquittal of Swami Aseemanand and others in the Samjhauta blast case by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court on March 20. This verdict is another testimony to the fact that …