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"When priests and bishops them selves turn heretics", asks the author, "who will save the church?" That almost sums up the book. It is a story of how, starting from the high moral pedestal raised by the Mahatma, Indian politics has sunk to abysmal depths of corruption and criminality. It gives a blow by blow account of the gross transformation of a politics of faith and trust into one of breach of faith and betrayal of trust, of a politics of ...
I have not been an angry young man; but if I appear an angry adult or old man, an explanation is certainly called for, says the author in the opening chapter. And the book goes on to provide that explanation in ample measure. In the process, it has turned out to be an explosive expose of all that is wrong, bad and ugly about India today. From the flaws in our Constitution to the bankruptcy of our intellectuals, from our ‘culture of lies’ to the cult of ...
“At the beginning of the momentous 20th centuryâ€, says the author, “the Indian sub-continent was the coveted paradise of the world’s imperial regime…. In a relatively short time span of about 50 years since the empire folded up, it has turned into a land of unceasing turbulence, terror and blood-spilling.†How came what was once the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of Britain, the most peaceful colonial territory in the world has turned into the sub-continent ...
Jihadi Terrorism is in the air today the world over. It has come to the center stage of the world, which poses some pertinent questions. What has brought it about at this point of time in the chequered history of the world? Is it the arrogance of Western powers vis a vis the Muslim world? Or the running sores of Palestine and Kashmir for example? But after the end of western imperialism since mid-20th century, Muslim countries of the Middle East have never been ...