There are quite a few number of such cases where such extra-judicial killing of Muslim youth has turned out to be false police encounters. All this is done to cover tracks ofHindutva terror. Mushrif says a “Brahminist” network that has its origins in Maharashtra, and is closely knit ac...
There have been moderate decreases but as any schoolchild will tell you society is still massively abusive towards gays. The gains in equal rights made do not and have not forced anyone to be less homophobic – don’t confuse one with the other. Vepar said “So not a word has been said...
Mullah Omar announced, once again, that there would be no peace negotiations with any occupying power…period. Any talk of peace with the Taliban, while remaining in Afghanistan, have been one-sided productions, offering various former Taliban as “negotiators,” to advance some new shift in the...
I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just seriously good) books out there in the thickets off the beaten path of the canon than I or anyone else can ever hope to d...
there was neither a genocide nor planned crimes against any community. More than 50% of Tamils always lived in the south of Sri Lanka. The only entity that engaged in systematic elimination of Muslims and Sinhalese in the north and east was the LTTE. The LTTE ethnically cleansed the Sinhalese...
There are two ways to get ahead: 1) Work harder and smarter than everybody else and 2) Make everybody else work less and dumber. If you ask any super successful person how many hours a week they work I can guarantee you that it's way more than 40 hours a week. ...
There was no time to weave a plot or to execute it if found. The stroke of one bell found me still struggling with my inward terrors and with no hope of any design. In a few minutes, both watches were out and Tom Splicer was splashing around the deck roaring orders to everybody ...
When I think about his influence now, I wonder how my life might have been different had I never known him; had there been a traditional, straitlaced someone in his place; someone who did not love partially formed human beings or who saw the teaching process as routine or tiresome; autocr...
James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name. “J.C.,”he replied. She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name. ...
When the very real Abduls turn up in your front room….sorry, your shul, doing a bit of that freedom fighting on your little Brussels sprouts and going all guerilla on the blue rinses of your old dears, there may be one or two of them left who will say a Kaddish for you on the ...