Three months have passed since the attacks on Mumbai’s hotels and train station, and much diplomacy and mudslinging between the Indian and Pakistani governments has resulted in few concrete solutions to the problem of terrorism. With a few more perishing and tens more affected directly by terrorism with each passing day in Pakistan, Islamists have [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Fundamentalism’
February 10, 2009
India’s Schizophrenic Muddles, Goons, Conservatism and Progress
An important debate brewing in the Indian circles these days, especially in the media, is that of the recent “moral policing” attacks by fundamentalist Hindus on Indian youth in Mangalore. The incident is not unlike other atrocious activities aired with scary regularity on Indian television, although the media nexus in the incident was apparent from [...]
December 3, 2008
Self-Contradictory, Dichotomous and Dangerous
Questions of identity are some of the oldest questions of all Mankind. Questions of identity spur the essentials of all philosophy. Questions about oneself, one’s environment, one’s likes and dislikes and one’s relationship with others were more fundamental than most questions that came afterwards. Ruminating on these aspects of identity and finding reasons for these [...]
