How the West Could Lose: A Timely Article by Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes asks a poignant question in his op-ed in today’s edition of the New York Sun: After defeating the fascists and the communists, can the West now defeat the radical Islamists?
He then raises the possibility that the ‘radical islamists’ might actually win where the West’s earlier rivals failed because according to him however strong [...]

Two Years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Two years after the devastating Tsunami struck the Indian Ocean region killing nearly 200,000 people from Aceh, Indonesia and Thailand in the east to Srilanka, India and Maldives to the west, it is the same old story of graft, incompetence and unfulfilled promises involving the local authorities, NGOs and the foreign governments who tried so [...]

A Very Indian Christmas

Here’s Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful time .

(via Pajamas Media)

India Should Give Up its Subcontinental Mindset: Air Chief

Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi in a speech yesterday said that India should stop being obsessed with China and Pakistan and should also start looking at the strategic challenges and opportunities that lie beyond the subcontinent.
“We have to move from purely northern-focused (border in the north) to northern-focused-plus,” he said, delivering the inaugural [...]

Rajnath Singh Blasts the UPA for its ‘Communal Socialist’ Politics

Rajnath Singh, the newly elected BJP Chief has blasted the UPA government for its ‘minority appeasement’ politics and promised to put an end to it within the next ten years.
Virtually declaring a war against what Bharatiya Janata Party traditionally perceives as ‘minority appeasement’, party chief Rajnath Singh on Saturday said, “We will bring this appeasement [...]

Bush Assures that Certain Provisions are Only “Advisory”

And the dumb Indians will fall for that line.
The telephonic call from Bush came two days after he made it clear that the legislation he signed on Monday did not mean he endorsed all its contents and that he considered certain portions like seeking to restrict fissile material production and transfers of enrichment technology as [...]

House Of “Elders” Also Passes the OBC Quota Bill

Days after the Lower(or No standards) House passed the OBC Quota Bill to reserve 1058% of the seats in Higher educational institutions for the kids of rich OBC Doctors, Engineers, Landlords, Politicians and Bureaucrats, the House of the old, decrepit and failed politicians, politely known as the House of “Elders” has also followed suit virtually [...]

Bush Signs the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Co-Operation Bill Into LAW

The US President George W Bush today signed the Indo-US Nuclear Co-operation Bill dubbed the Henry J Hyde India-US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Act into law.
December 18, 2006- Signing the act at a special White House ceremony, he(Bush) said: “The deal will help keep America safe by paving the way for India to join [...]

Reuters CEO Shares His Views On the Phenomenon of ‘Citizen Journalism’

If the devil is invited to speak his mind how would he turn out? How would he try to make his point? Would he would turn up the way he really is and say to everyone’s faces what he really thinks of them or would he arrive very presentable, dressed in a Business suit and [...]

‘Communal Socialist’ PM Welcomes “Enlightened Dictator’s” Proposals on the “Kashmir Issue”

PM Manmohan Singh newly dubbed as the ‘Communal Socialist PM’ has welcomed the ‘Four point proposals’ of the neighbourhood “Enlightened dictator” to “solve” the “Kashmir issue”.
Sunday, December 17, 2006 (New Delhi):
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has welcomed Pakistan President General Musharraf’s four-point offer on resolving the Kashmir dispute.Musharraf made this offer in an exclusive interview with [...]