The RSS today slammed the conferment of Padma Shri on Gladys Staines, wife of slain Australian missionary Graham Staines and Left historians who had opposed the “nationalist” approach to education brought in by the NDA government. It charged the Sonia Gandhi-led UPA with converting every occasion “to make a statement against national sentiments”. “The Padma… Read More »
In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a force in global affairs. His book looks at how some of the powerful… Read More »
The Narmada Samajik Kumbh, a purely cultural event is being politicised and demonised so much that it makes one feel as though the Hindus cannot even gather for a legitimate cause. The unwarranted protest of some Christian leaders over the Kumbh and the instant support of the Congress Party to them only confirm the long-held… Read More »
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the 104th Constitution (Amendment) Bill, providing reservation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes citizens in non-minority unaided private educational institutions, with near unanimity after a Bharatiya Janata Party-sponsored amendment was defeated. The Bill was passed with 379 votes in favour with one against. The BJP, which… Read More »
Sri John Dayal and other strident spokespersons of Christian Church and missionaries have faulted Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister, for the public expression of his opinion that the humanitarian services that the Christian missionaries are rendering through their schools and hospital have a conversion motive. It is really astounding for them to disown… Read More »
Till death do us part: Dalits are buried on the other side of the wall in this cemetery Many in India have embraced Christianity to escape the age-old caste oppression of the Hindu social order, but Christianity itself in some places is finding it difficult to shrug off the worst of caste discrimination. In the… Read More »
The All-India Christian Council (AICC) has opposed a section of the proposed Foreign Contribution (Management and Control) Bill, 2005 saying that it could be used to target Christian organisations charging them with conversion. The council plans to agitate against the proposed bills controversial Section 5 (iv), which stops inflow of foreign funding to organisations which… Read More »
After returning from a trip to Mumbai, the financial capital of India, to participate in the International Hindutva Conference, Kamal Thapa, Chairperson of the single Royalist party Rastriya Prajatanta Party-Nepal, making a meaningful revelation has said that his party will launch an agitation for the sake of National Independence and Democracy. It was indeed an… Read More »
Richard Zimler’s novel, Guardian of the Dawn, documents the little-known Portuguese Inquisition in India, in 16th century Goa. He points out that, apart from their laws and religion, the Portuguese also imported and enforced their infamous methods of interrogation to subdue troublemakers. Zimler has won numerous awards for his work, including a 1994 US National… Read More »
Manjula (14), a young tribal girl of Orissa’s Deogarh district, was tortured both mentally and physically by her nun employer and Christian neighbours—her fault being that she was born to Hindu parents. Had Manjula been a Muslim or Christian girl, help would have been showered on her both nationally and internationally. But in the… Read More »