In the rush to show how Islam wasn't alone in plunder, many a secularist has pointed the finger at King Harsha.
Author: Koenraad Elst (Koenraad Elst)
Post
Down with Birthdays!
Birthdays may be celebrated but not necessarily at the expense of tradition. Now that the grand Bhumi-pujan at Ayodhya is behind us, perhaps it can be stated without dampening the spirit of celebration that the choice of the date was an avoidable controversy.
Post
The Bodh Gaya temple controversy
The Ambedkarite neo-Buddhists hatred towards Hinduism led to a movement for the “liberation of the Mahabodhi shrine”.
Post
Hindu Hatya
The term genocide is bandied about without much thought and needs to be looked at for the legitimate persecution of Hindus to be recognized.
Post
Hindutva and other peoples’ nationalism
The BJP's rudimentary understanding of the war for territory may come back to haunt them later.
Post
The concept of Širk: what it meant before Islam
Various religions had a concept of associating a creature or a heavenly body with their god, which later became the most fundamental sin as Semitic faiths took over.
Post
Ban this Book
Taking umbrage at being shown the truth has made book banning a regular event in India.
Post
Islam and birth control
While popular Islamic thinking dictates birth control as a sin, its history is in fact laden with many layers.
Post
The Muslim birth rate
There is no indication that even one Muslim country will achieve a substantially lower growth rate than India's Hindu community within the next decades.
Post
Immigration from Bangladesh
Simmering communal tension in some of the border areas is one of the manifestations of the effects of large-scale illegal migration of Bangladeshi nationals who have slowly displaced or dispossessed the local population.