The author of Secret Affairs says that the past is returning ‘to haunt British policy in Afghanistan’ Mark Curtis; Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion With Radical Islam (2020) Richard Norton-Taylor British collusion with radical Islamist forces, including extremists who provided training camps for the leader of the 7/7 London suicide bombers and who are fomenting the… Read More UK’s collusion with Islamists ‘catastrophic’ (2010)
The Ram Mandir donations theft and Modi’s men who should answer for it ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Dhirendra K Jha, Amrita Singh August 1, 2026 FIVE MONTHS AFTER Narendra Modi began his second term as prime minister, the Supreme Court delivered his government a momentous gift. On 9 November 2019, it settled a land dispute in… Read More Trust Issues
By defending devotees rather than attacking the temple, the Opposition is turning the Hindutva milestone of the temple’s construction into an emotive anti-corruption narrative.. While the RSS tirelessly preaches that public behaviour, conduct, and character (chaal, chalan aur charitra) should be spotless, their behaviour in Ayodhya has been derelict, their conduct malfeasant, and their character dishonourable. Bharat… Read More Devotion to Deception: Ram temple theft scandal could redraw UP politics
The cultural fascination with the middle ages rarely acknowledges that power is still won and abused in the same wayIt makes a mockery of the idea that we use “medieval” as a term of abuse to fling at others, when really it’s a term that correctly defines enduring and deeply shameful characteristics of our own… Read More Our tendency to persecute others is as alive today as in medieval times
Saba Naqvi I am in a cab in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, where our family village home is located. Ayodhya is 100 km away, the road signs say. The vehicle is clean, the driver courteous and clearly deeply religious. His telephone declares “Jai Shri Ram” a thousand times during our drive because it is set… Read More Ayodhya’s holy scandal
A news report in The Indian Express has corroborated the systemic nature of this organised theft, citing sources who revealed that the matter only became public due to infighting between two trust members over recruitment and the stolen funds.The Wire staff New Delhi: The massive theft of public donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was… Read More Theft in Ram Temple First Detected and Reported in 2021, Trust Removed the Whistleblower Instead
A constitutional problem arises when religious authorities effectively dictate what laws to enact and in formulating State policy Bharat Bhushan On June 15, when the Akal Takht ordered all Sikh legislators across party lines and Punjab’s Sikh Cabinet ministers to physically appear before it, 78 MLAs and nine ministers complied. They were reprimanded for passing the controversial anti-sacrilege… Read More Constitution’s silent retreat as Punjab’s lawmakers genuflect before Akal Takht
The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today Guardian Editorial Reflecting on the genesis of his most famous work, Carlo Ginzburg wrote that by immersing himself in the trial of a 16th-century miller burned by the Roman Inquisition, he turned a possible… Read More Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders
New Delhi: Over the years, the construction and management of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya under the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust – at the site of the demolished Babri Mosque – has been the subject of several intense financial controversies, including allegations of corruption in handling of funds and allocation of land. The latest… Read More Ayodhya’s Ram Temple And Six Past Charges of Alleged Corruption / यही है राम की मर्यादा? 200 करोड़ के चंदे की डकैती होती रही, और किसी को ख़बर नहीं?
Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive Sahar Delijani Source: EQUATOR A protest in Tehran against mandatory veiling, 1979 / Courtesy Hengameh Golestan and Archaeology of the Final Decade 1. A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were taken back to prison. It was September 1983, four… Read More Hope Against Hope
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