Hindustan Times
As the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal moves from being a Hindu monarchy to a secular nation, the relationship between state and religion is changing. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Buddhists, Centre for Constitutional Dialogue, Chief Priest, Constituent Assembly, Gautam Chikermane, Himalayan kingdom, Hindu monarchy, Hindus, Mount Everest, Muslims, Nepal, Nepalese Parliament
At 2.30 pm today, when the Indian team enters the Mohali’s PCA Stadium, among the 27,500 spectators in the stands will be a spiritual guru, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, the founder of Inner Engineering and the organisation around it, Isha Foundation. His advice, however, will not be restricted to the Indian team, the Pakistanis can take inspiration too. Read more
(13 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:22 am
Filed under India · Tagged India vs Pakistan, Isha Foundation, Mohali, PCA stadium, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, world cup semifinals
When the world’s third-richest man asks you to invest in this way or that, you stand up and listen to him. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Bill Gates, India, Members of Parliament, Parliament, Warren Buffett
At a book fair organised at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia university, poet, songwriter and script writer Javed Akhtar said that while all languages have a region, only Urdu has been assigned a religion. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Bhojpuri, Bihari, Church, H. Schiffman, Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia university, Javed Akhtar, Maithili, New Delhi, Rajasthani, Sikh, Urdu, US
Three books, published in the past few months, have focussed on Islamophobia, a phenomenon that United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan was at a loss to describe. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Chris Allen, hindustan times, Ibrahim Kalin, Islamophobia, Jalees Rehman, John L. Esposito, Kofi Annan, Muslims, news, non-scientific, political, religious, social, Stephen Sheehi, United Nations, unreasonable fear
Even with my meagre training in mathematics, I know enough not to believe numbers blindly, particularly when they’ve been processed. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Daniel M. Abrams, Haley A. Yaple, hindustan times, mathematics, news, religion, Richard J. Wiener, social groups
By terming the strikes against Libya as a ‘Crusade’, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has turned a foreign policy issue into one of religion. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Filed under World, religion · Tagged Bahrain, BRIC nations, Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus, Crusades, Dmitry Medvedev, Egypt, Gulf, Libya, religion, Tunisia, UNSC, Vladimir Putin, West Asia, World Trade Centre, Yemen
A highly-controversial hearing on the radicalisation of Muslims in the US began today. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Filed under World · Tagged al qaeda, Attorney General Eric Holder, Denis McDonough, Extremism, hindustan times, news, Peter T King, Radical, terrorist attack, US Muslim community
The contrast is stark. On the one side we see the dictators of West Asia — Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt or Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia — clinging on to their power, making a mockery of nationhood and repressing their people in the worst possible way. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Dalai Lama, dictators, hindustan times, Hosni Mubarak, Jiang Yu, Muammar Gaddafi, news, spiritual leader, Tenzin Gyatso, Tibetan, Tibetan National Uprising Day, Tibetan Parliament in Exile, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, West Asia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Exactly 52 years ago, on March 10, 1959, an uprising took place in Tibet that changed the course of the nation. Its head, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, had to flee the country and find solace in India. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhism, hindustan times, Jamyang Norbu, My Spiritual Journey, news, Tenzin Gyatso, Tibetan National Uprising Day, Tibetan uprising
