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  • The processing stage – the Key of Belief, Part II
    David ShoshaniNot every belief that you hold needs to be directly related to TrueLove. Often times many of our world-views just slightly touch that issue. Take for instance a girl who has experienced several un
  • A Berth in the Planet’s Soul
    Jai Arjun Singh It’s only human to think of one’s own generation as somehow more significant than others. I’m 29, and my conversations with friends of the same age (or two to three years in either di
  • India and the quest for world order
    Siddharth VaradarajanIN INTERNATIONAL affairs, minor details often tell us more about the big picture than ponderous declarations and weighty documents. Next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to B
  • Corporal Punishment: Spare the rod, Save the child
    Shivam Vij “If one seeks to remove violence from everyday life, the place to begin should be the classroom”September 5 was Teacher’s Day, a day when students go to school and present their teachers w
  • Defying Violence with Democracy
    Cynthia Boaz and Jack DuVallThe future of Iraq is in jeopardy, not primarily because of foreign occupation, aborted reconstruction, Iranian interference, unregenerate Baathists, venal Iraqi politicians, Islamis
  • The Balochistan cause gets a Martyr
    Nirupama Subramanian On Saturday, Pakistan gave Balochistan the martyr the region’s nationalist cause lacked these last 58 years, when security forces killed Akbar Khan Bugti. The irony: the 79-year-old
  • Hatred the Product of War
    Uri AvneryIn his latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: “Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one
  • ‘I can’t go to Iraq. I can’t kill those children’
    Cahal Milmo While his peers from St Augustine’s Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of du
  • Review of Amartya Sen’s “Identity and Violence”
    Satya Sagar  ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That was me, a bearded Indian working for a Sri Lankan video prod
  • On the US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    Noam ChomskyThough there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-
  • Repressed Pedagogies and the Agitation in Manipur
    Dolly KikonOn 9 August, 2006, the Manipur education minister, Mr. Nandakumar warned the hill districts of Manipur, government of Nagaland, and civil society to refrain from interfering in Manipur’s issues. He
  • War in Sri Lanka creates a flood of Refugees
    Nanda WickramasingheOngoing fighting initiated by the Sri Lankan military against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is creating a social catastrophe. More than 160,000 people have been displaced since
  • Islam and Indian Nationalism
    Yoginder SikandIn both radical Islamist as well as Hindutva discourse, Islam and Indian nationalism are seen as w0 holly compatible. Radical Islamists consider nationalism as an ‘idol’, demanding the loyalt
  • A Bittersweet Day
    Walden BelloBeirut - The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a taxi driver, who tells me, “We won, but at what cost? So many people displ
  • Be Skeptical ... Be Very Skeptical
    M K Bhadrakumar One of the significant contributions to the “war on terror” by Britain’s home secretary David Blunkett before his abrupt departure from the Tony Blair cabinet last year was his statem
  • A defeat for Israel, but also for justice
    Siddharth VaradarajanWHEN ISRAEL attacked Lebanon a month ago, it had two stated and two unstated military objectives. The stated objectives were the unconditional release of two of its soldiers captured by Hiz
  • Three Phases to TrueLove - An overview
    David Shoshani'Following the prerequisite described in the last article come the three phases that lead to TrueLove. The first one is ‘the processing phase’, the second one is ‘the releasing phase’ and
  • India - The Burning Train
    Satya Sagar  15th August 2006 marks yet another Independence Day for the modern Indian nation. Fifty nine years ago this day Pandit Nehru, the country’s first Prime Minister, famously declared the new bo
  • Who? Me?!
    Uri AvneryToday, the war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a “gang” and “terrorist organization”, as the military commanders like to desc
  • A Disastrous Model
    Praful BidwaiA crass and hysterical nationalism is taking hold among a section of the Indian middle class in response to the Mumbai blasts. This nationalism is paranoid. It considers India uniquely vulnerable t
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