By O.P. Sudrania Caste or Class Systems versus India in Global Perspective – CHAPTER EIGHT The Western invaders arrived with an express desire to colonise and exploit the indigenous people wherever they went, materially as well as spiritually. India was no exception. They had to find a way out to create further chasm in the local people […]
Where Are NGO Foreign Contribution Funds Really Going in India?
By Professor Vaidyanathan Normally reticent and mild mannered Manmohan Singh in an interview to Science magazine during February mentioned that American NGO’s are funding the protests against Kudankulam nuclear plant. He also blamed protests against genetically modified crops on groups which were funded from the US and Scandinavian countries. He said that “they are not […]
Book Review: Being Different – An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
(CHAKRA) In the book Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, Indo-American thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing […]
Army Chief Row – Will History Repeat?
The real issue is the state and morale of the defense forces, not the leaked letter or petty politics. Fifty years ago, demoralization and neglect of the armed forces by Nehru and Krishna Menon led to national humiliation in the 1962 China war. Navaratna Rajaram “History does not repeat itself,” it is famously said, “but […]
Possible Cancer Cure in ‘Karela’, also known as Bitter Melon
By Antony Thomas Washington, DC (CHAKRA) – An Indian-origin researcher at Saint Louis University claims that an extract from bitter melon, commonly eaten and known as karela in India, causes a chain of events which helps to kill breast cancer cells and prevents them from multiplying. The taste of bitter melon known for its bitter taste […]