What divides the world The recent terror attacks in Europe have collapsed questions on public policy, strategic affairs and social integration to a rare common standstill: how to curb dogmatic…
I am responding to numerous requests to give my views on Tarek Fatah. I want to first examine Benazir Bhutto and Fareed Zakaria, both well-known liberal Muslims. This gives insights…
In the last two decades, I have come across several historians, students, religious- spiritual practitioners and even common people who try to define Krishna’s personality in one way or the…
Excerpts from the book Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire by Stephen Knapp Japanese scholar Okakura observes, in his Ideals of the East: “The religion and culture of China are…
One of the popular atheist bloggers who was grievously wounded in an assassination attempt by the Islamic fundamentalists, Sunnyur Rahman, now lives in Delhi, India. He is a rationalist atheist…
Emperor Dasharat of Ayodhya was coerced by his favorite wife Kaikeyi into granting two boons: banishing Rama, the rightful heir, to the forest for fourteen years; and proclaiming Bharat, her…
