AamJanata – Intellectual Anarchy!

The Constitution is not a charter of servitude

Afghanistan

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Symbiosis International University to host Conference on International Relations

India and Development Partnerships in Asia and Africa: Towards a New Paradigm Symbiosis International University to host Conference on International Relations India and Development Partnerships in Asia and Africa: Towards a New Paradigm Pune, December 11, 2013 – Symbiosis International Universi...

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6 years ago

Illegal soliciting of funds by BJP

BJP solicits foreign funding

The online donation form on BJP websites openly accepts payments from People of Indian Origin, who are essentially not Indian Citizens and thus can't legally donate to political parties in India.

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6 years ago

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A democratic solution for Kashmir

Disclaimer: I see Kashmir as a part of India as a geographic reality. If it becomes free, I will see it as free. I refuse to cater to bullshit that treats Kashmir as a separate country before it becomes one. This goes for separatists who don't like me calling Kashmiris Indian and this goes for na...

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6 years ago

Ironic Islamic Protests

The tragic irony of Muslim protests

There is little point writing beyond this. Muslims protest. Whatever it is, they protest. Protests turn violent. People condemn. Then it is an insult of Islam. This rubbish cycle continues forever... Today, when news hit that a Berlin court has allowed a rightwing extremist organization to use ca...

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7 years ago

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What about Balochistan?

The Baloch are sitting ducks. With the sea on one side, and Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they literally have nowhere to go. The world watches in horror as a steady trickle of deaths flows through the news on a daily basis. I call it “The Baloch Black” in my mind – the season’s color, except th...

Vidyut
8 years ago

While the world strategized…

A few days ago, a news report by the BBC caught my eye. It said the Red Cross reported some 800,000 people as disabled by the ongoing war in Afghanistan. It struck me as odd, since I didn’t think Afghanistan was such a large country. So I saved the link to check up and found time today. The previ...

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8 years ago

Disabled by war – how many? Need help from journos

Recently, the BBC published a video report by Karen Zarindast about the number of people disabled by war in Afghanistan. They quote the Red Cross as the source of their figures: Decades of war have left some 800,000 people disabled in Afghanistan. The Red Cross, has seven centres across the count...

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8 years ago

Self immolations and the unconscious mind

Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally in say India or among the Tibetan Buddhists, it is a very important taboo in Islam. Not only is suic...

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8 years ago

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Some thoughts on Pakistan and Independent Kashmir

When I wrote my post on Kashmiri Pandits, a friend responded privately with a nugget of political insight – before the ethnic cleansing, Kashmiri Pandits did favor independence over merger with India. If that is true, then Pakistan did Kashmir a grave disservice by sponsoring the butchers who dev...

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8 years ago