There has been a discernible frisson of excitement in intellectual and political circles in New Delhi ever since the leaders of the Mohajirs, Sindhis, Baluchis and Pakhtoons declared the demise of the two-nation theory. Partition, Pakistan’s minority groups intoned, was a blunder because its raison d’etre, expounded in the 1940 Lahore Declaration (full provincial autonomy […]Read More
During his visit to India in November 1999, Pope John Paul II abused the country’s fabled hospitality and doggedly projected conversions as the Church’s sole agenda in India and Asia. Of course, he made polite noises about our legendary religious tolerance, but it was too scanty to disguise his contempt for Hinduism as a religion […]Read More
In a historical period reverberating with the names of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, it stands to reason that successful voyages could be undertaken only with proper knowledge of the location of the sun, planets, and major constellations. Yet, Galileo’s observation that the sun is the centre of the solar system brought the wrath […]Read More
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