The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

The slaying of the international terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, and the liquidation of his confederates by the American Special Forces have ceased a gory chapter of Islamic terrorism. Osama was a vile terrorist, whose ideology was responsible for the engenderment of a slew of young Muslim terrorists globally. One interesting facet of Osama is that his blood-spattered fundamentalism disseminated through the Muslim world because of his monetary assets and apparent charismatic persona.

The American military intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s to uproot …

Ananth Venkatesh

Any nationalistic Indian outlook will not desire the dilution of Indian connection to AP and Sikkim as Indian troops have sacrificed their lives and shed their blood to keep these two provinces with India.

China is a godless nation, with which India shares a colossal frontier. Ideally, China should never have been permitted to border India. The attachment of the Chinese border to the Indian border took place in the 1950s as a consequence of the grisly and lawless conquest of Tibet then …

Ananth Venkatesh

The author traces China’s fall to the state of intellectual and administrative disintegration that has now led to its confrontations with India.

• The commonplace Chinese citizens were enmeshed in a civil war for four years subsequent to the culmination of WW 2 in August 1945 after the Japanese surrender.
• Then, the civil strife in China had, as its participants, Communist militias pitted against the anti Communist (Nationalist) militias. Also, millions of the Chinese civilians, who were the members of either the Nationalist or

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Overview

The recent popular demonstrations against the autocratic governments in the countries of the Islamic world such as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen are indicative of the profound discontentment and disillusionment that has penetrated the psyche of the ordinary Mohammedans there.

Rationales Contributing To The Political Wobbliness In The Muslim World

1) Lebanese Hezbollah

Hezbollah, which is a Shiite organization, exists politically as well as militarily in the ethnically sundry Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is subsidized as well as armed clandestinely by the …

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The insurrection of a sizable segment of the Libyan populace against the Libyan autocrat, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, is a continuation of the popular mutinies that have characterized the Mohammedan world recently.

The civil strife is anchored in tribalism as the Colonel’s tyranny has spawned loads of loathing for his tribe. The demonstrators on the Libyan lanes predominantly belong to the opposing tribes of Libya that desire to witness the dethronement of the Colonel and his tribe.

It is strongly possible that the demonstrators …

Ananth Venkatesh

Mubarak certainly shouldn’t quit now. The Egyptian Parliament should, first of all, amend the constitutional provisions to make the imperfect Egyptian democracy more perfect.

Egypt may very well become a democracy but a dysfunctional one characterized by internecine and interparty political squabbling, which could very well make a weary Egyptian populace desperate for stability, which could tilt their support towards the IB.

The bloody protests on the Egyptian streets against the continuation of the Presidency of Hosni Mubarak have become an international topic, …

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The naïveté of some Indian strategic analysts as well as segments of the Indian media that terrorism against Indian civilians will cease if Kashmir is disconnected from India is wholly condemnable.

The endorsers of a self-regulating Kashmir need to comprehend that it will engender colossal crises that will inevitably enfeeble India. Independence for Kashmir will be followed by the Islamization of the State, which would be natural, considering the spitefulness of Islamist terrorism there currently and the prevalence of cultural extremists such as …

Ananth Venkatesh
(written in August)

Kashmir of India has been under a state of belligerence over the last two months, which is heartrending. A segment of the Kashmiri remonstrators, inevitably hostile to India, has fierily invaded the lanes of pretty Kashmir, in the company of children. The national security personnel along with the provincial police have been the targets of the rage of these remonstrators. The mercilessness of these protestors is evident in their transportation of impressionable children to the Kashmiri boulevards in order to …

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Secularism is a laudable concept that has been constitutionalised in several countries of the world. France and Turkey are two examples of nations that come to mind. They have an intransigently secular constitution that is vehemently opposed to the infiltration of religion into the affairs of the state.

The Turkish military remains a bastion of obdurate secularism that feels threatened by the Islamist personality of the party that is currently guiding the country. However, it would be prudent to mention that the Justice …

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“Undue reliance on tranquil international diplomacy and forceless intranational diplomacy can backfire badly, thereby humiliating the national ego.”

The monstrosity of terrorists demonstrated by the recent bloodletting in Pune [Photo: top; source] illustrates the deviousness of Islamist fundamentalism. The blameless victims of the blast at a popular store of bakery in Pune are the latest in the enormous list of unfortunate Indians who have been wolfed by Islamist bigots.

India is a nation that has juddered continually due to the remorseless personality …