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MSNBC tells us that the heads of Islamic nations have just concluded a high level meeting at Dakar, Senegal. The Muslim heads of states are worried how Islam is portrayed by Western countries. The delegates were each given a tome prepared by the...
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Hindi movies have made a mockery of our higher education system. Being intellectual is akin to being a nerd, unfit for any serious purpose. Scholarship is well nigh dead in our country. Mediocrity has given way to meritocracy. General stream students...
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It was Michel Foucault who spoke about the unlimited power that psychiatrists have over their patients. He was appalled by the total submission that is demanded of patients by doctors. Foucault is mistakenly thought geeky and his philosophy removed from...
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Peter Lehr of St Andrews University puts everything in perspective when he declares that the UK or her Allies should not negotiate with the Al Qaeda for there is nothing to compromise about. He is direct when he says that the UK needs oil from the...
The UK Independent is now crying foul at prostitution in Bangladesh. Johann Hari writes about his own forays into Bangladeshi prostitution rings and what he claims to have found there. As his rambling and drawn out report proceeds, we are convinced...
Now that President Bush is on his way out and the US has been left red-faced by the Iraqi invasion; scapegoats have to be found. And whom better than an erstwhile Iraqi named Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka Curveball. TimesOnline goes all out to prove the point...
None heeds my pet peeve. Even though I have the likes of Jonathan Swift endorsing me. I have maintained that there are too many kids on this earth. Look wherever you will, there are just too many children swamping the place. They just will not leave...
No one but a few high-profile celebrities and the Tibetans themselves are interested in Tibet. At least, that is how China would like us all to believe. Years after the Chinese Government forced the Dalai Lama to flee his homeland and take shelter in...
The Christian Brothers, a global Catholic Religious Congregation running orphanages and elitist schools worldwide, had to pay huge amounts in damages in Ireland, Canada and Australia. They were accused of sodomizing orphan boys under their care. In...
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The Middle East problem has all but ceased to surprise us. In conversation the other day, a relative working in Israel as a precious-stone jeweller spoke with evident disgust against everything Jewish. He spoke how Jews in spite of being only an...
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