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July 2008

July 22, 2008

Religions of East and West: How it all took a different turn

"As other discovered texts proved, the Hittite pantheon was in fact borrowed from (or through)...

July 20, 2008

Men give in to sexual temptation easier than women

Image via WikipediaA research study from Montreal, Canada's McGill University claims that men give into...

July 19, 2008

Automated Prasads and erosion of Spirituality from our temples

Image via WikipediaPrasad at Lord Murugan temple in the Palani hills was regarded as perhaps...

July 19, 2008

Should Pan-Islamic agenda trump National Interest??

There is this joker - a rebel Samajwadi MP Munnawar Hassan.. he is going to...

July 09, 2008

Lies and falsehoods on Amarnath

This is from Wikipedia. If you have any other source and evidence that this is...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

Obama and Hanuman

In the last few years, Indian-Americans have become great fund raisers for the Presidential elections....

June 18, 2008

How Christian Institutions screwed up Vedantic wisdom and Hinduism for Conversions

Does this book cover seem strange? It is Hinduism By Monier Monier-Williams, Society for Promoting...

June 17, 2008

Peace loving and violence: a dialogue of Kashmiris

"Stop talking of Kashmir, if you do not know what happens there!" burst out Khurshid....

May 2008

May 24, 2008

"The Third Jesus" book review by Ashish Samuel

I had asked a friend of mine - from High School - to review Dr....

May 19, 2008

What do a Billion Muslims think?

Since Muslims behave or tend to associate with each other (and expand) with a Pan-religious...

May 16, 2008

Swami Vivekananda's speech to World Parliament of Religions in 1893

This is the speech that Swami Vivekananda gave on September 11, 1893 - 108 years...

May 16, 2008

Islam is the largest religion – Vatican newspaper

Vatican newspaper says that Islam is the largest religion in the world. 17.4 % of...

May 04, 2008

How easily the Hindus are made to get hurt!

True to their name - Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK), the people of this organization keep...

April 2008

April 20, 2008

Blasphemy, Impotent Prophets and Gods, and Living Apostates!

Khuda ke bandon ko dekhkar hi khuda se munkir huyi hai duniya; ki aise bande...

April 17, 2008

Story of the IISc Attack and why moderate Muslims Globally are to blame for Terrorism as well!

Global "Ummah" Pain and making of a Terrorist He studied in Aligarh Muslim University. Two...

April 13, 2008

God – the Impotent, Schizophrenic, Glorified Waiter

1000 Dalits are being reconverted to Hinduism from Christianity. I am sure many Christians would...

February 2008

February 26, 2008

Darul Uloom stands up to the Terrorists and Issues Fatwa against Terrorism

For long my grouse with the Moderate Muslims has been that they do say Islam...

February 26, 2008

Youtube, Idol Worship and Fanaticism

Pakistan's government does not want its people to watch Youtube. Why? Because it has some...

February 21, 2008

Why is Narendra Modi so popular – his interaction with the pseudos from Indian press

This is a rather interesting video of Narender Modi on his address at the HT...

February 19, 2008

Saving our So(u)le!

Isn't he the guy who should be on the pulpit....And those guys with white and...

February 19, 2008

Is US of today where Persia was yesterday?

Like I said earlier in the post, Religion colors everyone's logic and rationale. Whatever one...

February 17, 2008

A Singer and his Religion – who competes?

This week Aamir Hafeez was eliminated from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. It created a...

February 13, 2008

Blind Man Painting: Blasphemy of thought to creation process

There is usually this controversy or thought in many religions/traditions that physical representation of God...

February 11, 2008

Muslim medical students refuse sanitation measure on religious grounds

Pharyngula writes on Scienceblogs: So…Muslims want special foot washing stations so they can tidy up...

January 2008

January 29, 2008

Victim Bazaar, Bilkis Bano, NGOs, and the forgotten Wandhama Massacre!

For long NGOs and the activists in India have made rich careers in activism for...

January 28, 2008

God and the Mathematicians

Mathematicians are more religious than their scientist brethren. A survey by National Academy of Science...

January 23, 2008

Afghan student gets Death Sentence for printing "anti-Islamic" paper!

When a living human being is killed to uphold the imaginary honor of a medieval...

January 20, 2008

Cutting the woman for her attraction…

In the Islamic world, circumcision is common, both for men and women. The women are...

January 19, 2008

Where is Pakistan headed?

Bhutto's death was a watershed and terrible! But what is happening thereafter is even worse......

January 18, 2008

The complete nonsense of religious values!

I went to the blog of Joseph Thomas (Jo calling) who had challenged the call...