Tag: France
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Pawn In Indo-Pacific Game?
Has India taken a step forward in countering China in the Indo-Pacific region despite not having high stakes in the area? Has it decided to be a stooge for the US in its game of one-upmanship over China? This question has become ominous and relevant in the backdrop of the recent technical stopover of a…
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French Public Schooling: How Much ‘Neutral Space’ Does It Offer to Children from Different Faiths?
Let us consider the latest spate of religious hate-crimes in France. Samuel Patty, a middle-aged French teacher of history and geography at a school in Paris suburb was brutally killed by a young Chechen Muslim refugee for showing the inflamatory cartoons on Prophet Muhammad to his students in classroom. These are the same cartoons which…
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Islamophobia Vs Regressive Islamists: how to get out of the vicious cycle of hatred and violence?
Recent terror killings in France and later in Canada in the wake of controversy over the cartoons on Islam’s Prophet Muhammad has once again foregrounded the so-called clash of civilizations between the Christian – secular West and the Islamic world in global media and political discourses. It has huge implications in Hindu and Buddhist-majority countries…
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Rafale deal is biggest scam ever and compromise to national security: Ex-BJP Ministers
Delhi: In 1987, when VP Singh blew the lid off the Bofors scandal, the entire nation found a messiah in Singh. The scandal involved illegal kickbacks paid in a US$1.4 billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors with the then government of India for the sale of 410 field howitzer guns, and a supply…