Bollywood actor Salman Khan went to Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai, this Sunday(Feb 9) to offer his prayers along with co-actor Daisy Shah. Apparently, the actor wanted to thank God after his latest film entered the Rs.100-crore club. The much-awaited film, which released on January 24, did not draw an overwhelming response from the audience and [...]
February 10, 2014
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Archives, India
London: Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in starting conflicts in countries where jihadis might find a safe base to promote their ideas. The document, published by the SITE monitoring service, provides a rare look at al-Qaida’s strategy 12 [...]
September 27, 2013
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News updates
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on idol worship, music, art and ethics in Bollywood and politics. [...]
September 20, 2013
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World Focus
A defeatist tendency exists in the psyche of modern Indians perhaps unparalleled in any other country today. An inner conflict bordering on a civil war rages in the minds of the country’s elite. The main effort of its cultural leaders appears to be to pull the country down or remake it in a foreign image, [...]
September 2, 2013
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights
On Sunday 16 December 2012 a 23-year old was gang-raped and brutally beaten with an iron rod for about 45 minutes on a Delhi bus. The crime was so animalistic that NDTV news channel has reported that the woman has had to undergo surgery for two hours to have almost her entire intestines removed. The [...]
December 19, 2012
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights
The release of the online Flash Mob Mumbai video showing the spoilt western wannabe youth of Mumbai dancing on the very site of gruesome terrorist attacks at the rail station would be laughable if it was not so insulting to the memory of those innocent people who lost their lives. Emulating a more famous event in London’s [...]
March 28, 2012
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Analysis/Insights