Hindustan Times
When Kapil Sibal says that blasphemous material either against religions or people — notably his leader, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi — should be removed from websites and social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter, we know it is the beginning of the end of free speech. Read more
(14 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anand Sharma, Anna Hazare, blasphemy, Censorship, Congress, Facebook, FDI in retail, free speech, Gautam Chikermane, Islam, Kapil Sibal, religious blasphemy, social networking platforms, Sonia Gandhi, Twitter, websites
Apologies to the regular readers of Just Faith, but over the past two months economic and political events have captured all my attention and time. If we assume that attention is a finite resource and has to function within the confines of mind-body limitations and a 24-hour days, balancing politics, economics and religion becomes a rather difficult task. Read more
(9 votes, average: 3.89 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, anna tem, anti corruption, corruption, Gautam Chikermane, Global Economic Crisis, hindustan times, jast faith, Mumbai attack, news, tihar jail, US debt
What do you do when spiritual gurus enter the political arena, rake up political issues — and push a democratically elected government into a corner? I laughed. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, black money, Chandrashekhar, Chandraswami, corruption, Dhirendra Brahmachari, Doordarshan, Elizabeth Taylor, gurus, India, Indira Gandhi, Kapil Sibal, Lalu Prasad, Lokpal Bill, media, PK Bansal, politics, Pranab Mukherjee, PV Narasimha Rao, scams, spiritual gurus, Subodh Kant Sahay, Sultan of Brunei, Swami Ramdev
I’m surprised and rather disappointed with the response to my post yesterday: French Muslims need an Anna Hazare. An entire religion is being viewed through the prism of a few manipulators, fundamentalists, extremists. Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Anna Hazare, Buddhism, burqa ban, Christianity, extremists, France, French Muslims, fundamentalists, Hinduism, Islam, Muslims, religion, Sikhism
As expected, reactions to France banning the full face veil on Monday, with a fine of 150 Euros, have been varied. Read more
(18 votes, average: 1.78 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Filed under World, religion · Tagged Anna Hazare, Darul Uloom Deoband, democracy, extremists, face veil, France, Gautam Chikermane, India, Islam, Jabeen of Abdullah Azzam, Koran, religion, Sarkozy, Shumukh al-Islam
When I’m asked for a bribe — and to be fair, this coercion came to me after many happy bribe-free years — my entire body revolts in disgust. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Monday, April 11, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Anna Hazare, corruption, Cutting the Edge, Gautam Chikermane, hindustantimes, ht blogs, Lokpal Bill, news
In August 1997, when India was celebrating 50 years of freedom and we were bombarded with advertising and hypes around the ‘event’, I was seeing the hollowness of that freedom. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Business Standard, Five decades of decay, Gautam Chikermane, India
