Do or Die

Hindu intifada-Kanchan Gupta

Posted Tue, 08/05/2008 - 12:17 by rkm

Images can have a profound impact and make a
lasting impression even on the most cynical among us. They can also act
as a force multiplier in a conflict zone. Recall the photographs and
television footage of teenaged Palestinian boys in Gaza and the West
Bank confronting Israeli tanks armed with no more than shepherd's
slings; of young men, their faces half-covered with handkerchiefs and kafiyeh,
racing through billowing clouds of tear gas to hurl stones at soldiers
armed with assault rifles; of middle-aged and old women violating
police pickets and defying curfew. That was the first time we heard of
a little-used Arabic word, intifada, which literally means to
shake off but in recent times has come to mean a rebellion premised on
the Biblical tale of David vanquishing Goliath, a relentless mass

Why dharmacharyas are silent over Shrine Board row?

Posted Thu, 07/10/2008 - 11:20 by rkm

For getting votes of the minorities to keep themselves in power, the
politicians have no hesitation to shun their religious faith. In
Kashmir, the politcal leaders were frightened by the increasing numbers
of pilgrims who visit the Amarnath cave..THE MOST surprising and amazing fact is that leading Hindu dharmacharyas all over the country — whether they are peethaadheeswars, pandaleswars, mahamandaleswars, acharyas of the Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva Sampradayas or heads of internationally renowned mutths and missions or leaders of different caste-based religious cults and sampradayas —
they have all remained silent on the issue of land deal between
Amarnath Shrine Board and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government.