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Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:22 |
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When Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in protest against his peace efforts, many parallels
were offered by commentators, most frequently with the Egyptian President Anwar
al-Sadat, but also with Indian Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
However, if we look for parallels in India, the closest parallel is not with
these Government leaders. Indira and Rajiv were killed not for any peace
efforts but for their military actions: against the Khalistani separatists and
against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, respectively. Unlike Rabin and
Sadat, they were not killed by radical members of their own community, but by
Sikh bodyguards and by a female Christian Tamil suicide bomber, respectively.
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Read more... [A Tale of Two Murders : Yitzhak Rabin and Mahatma Gandhi]
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Saturday, 13 June 2009 18:54 |
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In the 3rd
millennium BC, the Indus-Saraswati civilization was the world leader in science
and technology as well as in trade and philosophy. We are witnessing a return
to India's roots, considering the bright
prospects of India in the 3rd millennium AD, soon to
begin. In current discussions about this development, the Pokharan nuclear
tests were the inevitable main points of reference, because they have acted as
an eye-opener to Indians and foreigners alike. The tests have made the point
that India now plays in the top league: technologically, because Indian
scientists have demonstrated their mastery of that very technology which, after
1945, decides a country's status in geopolitics; and politically, because India
has demonstrated the will and capacity to assert its vision of a multipolar
world, as opposed to the unipolar "new world order" inaugurated by
the Soviet implosion. In this guest column, I would like to look into some of
the implications of the emerging power e! quation.
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Read more... [India, Superpower in the 3rd Millennium BC - and AD]
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 25 January 2009 19:00 |
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On 25 and 26 September 2008, the Paris-based South Asia
Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) held a conference about "outraged
communities: investigating the politicisation of emotions in South Asia". The
texts of the contributed presentations have now been published in the December
2008 issue of SAMAJ (integrally on-line at http://samaj.revues.org).
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Read more... [Outrage in South Asia]
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:00 |
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The
present essay is a somewhat lengthy yet essentially off-the-cuff reply to a
recent paper by Meera Nanda: "Dharmic ecology and the neo-Pagan
international: the dangers of religious environmentalism in India",
presented at panel no. 15 at the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian
Studies, 6-9 July 2004 in Lund, Sweden. Ms. Nanda has recently been positioning
herself in academic and Marxist media as an expert on Hindu nationalism's
relation to various "postmodern" ideologies. When I read some
of her papers in late 2003 and found the topic not without importance, I
forthwith started to write a reply, partly to disagree but also partly to
agree. Then again, as such abstract and abstruse themes are not a matter
of urgency, I haven't exactly hurried to finish my paper, but it remains on my
agenda. Meanwhile, my attention was drawn to several mentions of my own name in
the Lund instalment of her continuing
story. The claims she makes there about my own position are factually
wrong and seem to be based on what Prof. Meenakshi Jain (in her correction of
Prof. J.S. Grewal's crass misrepresentation of her NCERT textbook of medieval history)
has aptly called "the Marxist bush telegraph". That is why I quickly
wrote the following reaction, in expectation of the completion of my comment on
her more general presentation of the Hindu-postmodernist interface.
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Read more... [Hinduism, Environmentalism and the Nazi Bogey]
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Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:00 |
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Mahatma
Gandhi is often praised as the man who defeated British imperialism with
non-violent agitation. It is still a delicate and unfashionable thing to
discuss his mistakes and failures, a criticism hitherto mostly confined to
Communist and Hindutva publications. But at this distance in time, we shouldn't
be inhibited by a taboo on criticizing official India's patron saint.
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Read more... [Learning from Mahatma Gandhi's mistakes]
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