Nancy Kaul
21 May 2010

The dark ages of Islamic domination seem to be slowly seeping back into independent India. First was the Kashmiri Muslim hegemony of not allowing land and infrastructure for Hindu yatris; and now Jazia has been levied on the pilgrims and langars for the revered Amarnath Yatra.

Solzhenitsyn, nationalism sans geopolitics

America and Europe did not expect Putin’s Russia to rise up from the ashes of the Soviet Union; a Russia that looked increasingly like her old self - not only putting the steel of national pride and resolve back in the spines of her people but also asserting herself in world affairs. This Russia did by surmounting a self-inflicted suicidal handicap of loss of national territory; and this Russia did because Vladimir Putin realized not only the merits of Rebuilding Russia but also its gross errors in judgment and set himself to the task of regaining Russia’s sphere of influence in the former Soviet republics.

When Solzhenitsyn presaged Fukuyama and Huntington

The seed of Huntington’s brilliant essay on the clash of civilizations which he penned in 1993 is contained in Solzhenitsyn’s no less brilliant talk that he delivered in Harvard in 1978. At America’s holiest of academic holies, Solzhenitsyn analyzed in unsparing language, what he saw America and Americans as representing - intellectual cowardice, decadence of all creative art, loss of spirituality, erosion of religion, absence of self-restraint, destructive individualism, overbearing arrogance and above all a national ego, bloated with complacency that can be caused only by the surfeit of material prosperity. http://www.vigilonline.com

An armyman's perspective
Lt. Gen. Harwant Singh AND Lt. Gen. Vijay Oberoi

The object of the article on AFSPA was to caution authorities to go easy on recasting this Act as well as to tell the military authorities to ensure that our officers and troops have the necessary protection while they carry out these difficult tasks.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University
Source: http://www.americanrhetoric.com

I am sincerely happy to be here on the occasion of the 327th commencement of this old and most prestigious university. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today's graduates.