Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia but grew up in Nairobi. The Somali community in which she lived was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood who transformed Ali and her teenage friends from believers into Islamic activists.
Yet in 1992 she claimed asylum in the Netherlands as she escaped a forced marriage Following the 11 September [...]
Russia has blasted Ukraine after one of its government accounts mocked Hindu Goddess Kali on Twitter. Russian envoy to UN accused Ukraine of disrespecting all faiths including the Hindu faith. This as Ukraine regretted the post, which has now been deleted, and called for increasing friendly ties with India.#goddesskali #putin #ukraine Ukraine’s defence ministry tweeted [...]
Russian dolls are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Unpackaging Russia itself has been an issue for western commentators.
It was after all Winston Churchill who defined Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma," and his words in 1939 spoke eloquently to the Western sense of [...]
PM Modi while deeply meditating in an upside-down Yogi Posture at 4 o’clock in the morning was immediately requested to be present at an emergency meeting at the Sansad Bhavan – the Indian Parliament House. While in shock, teary-eyed PM Modi had to announce to the BJP ministers and the opposition parties that the British [...]
Whenever the Indian elections are underway the western media is even more panicked than usual about the impending doom faced by the world’s largest democracy as it falls into the abyss of Hindu fascism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and other assorted ‘reactionary’ forces. The parrot-fashion use of such worn-out phrases and the lazy reliance on the chattering [...]
April 22, 2014
Ranbir Singh
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