Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin slams U.S. President Donald Trump’s negative actions on India. He further criticises the same Whitehouse giving Islamist Pakistan a welcome, where Pakistani General Munir recently made nuclear threats to India and the rest of the world, when this is the same Pakistan where Bin Laden hid safely, should be classified [...]
From India landing on the moon to India's sophisticated and advanced military attack against Pakistan, along with India's economic power rising, so of course it's giving a headache across the world, especially to the US. And it's made worse with Hindu spirituality expanding everywhere, no matter how much the Hinduphobes try desperately to create obstacles. [...]
It shows that the older spiritual idea of India is still strong and is undergoing a resurgence. Today two different ideas of India are struggling with each other in a cultural war that is likely to continue for some time. The first can be called the “Nehruvian idea” of a modern post-independence India as a [...]
June 20, 2016
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights, Archives
NEW DELHI: India has taken the final decision to ban all animal testing of soaps and detergents, with an environment ministry committee taking the view in a meeting held late last month. Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the Department of Industrial Policy [...]
September 20, 2015
HHR
Archives, India
NEW DELHI: No temple, but here’s a museum. The Narendra Modi government is planning to build a state of-the-art Ram museum in the politically charged town of Ayodhya. Tourism minister Mahesh Sharma told ET that the museum will be part of the proposed ‘Ramayana circuit’. The locus of past and possible political battles — the [...]