Muslims are assumed to be the largest consumers of meat while the fact is that Christians and Jews are the highest meat consumer communities. The world’s largest beef meat exporter country is Brazil followed by India,Australia, USA and UK. When we see this matter in an Indian perspective we would be surprised to know that out of six largest meat exporters of India three are Hindu owned. In several cases […]
Public health concerns and the collective good should overrule all arguments for responsible drinking that most governments in the world In striking down the Bihar Excise Act which bans the sale of liquor across the state, the Patna HC has set the cat among the pigeons. By being cheeky in challenging the ban as a violation of basic tenets of the Constitution, the judgement calls into question whether arbitrary and […]
After Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984, when Rajiv Gandhi revealed that he was being asked to take over as prime minister, Sonia Gandhi sobbed, “They’ll kill you, they’ll kill you!…” This may not be exactly what happened. But Spanish author Javier Moro’s version of the Congress president’s life, “The Red Sari”, is finally in Indian bookstores for readers to decide. The author calls it a “dramatized biography” as the dialogues […]
Pakistan has banned The Da Vinci Code, which has been the subject of protests from members of Pakistan’s small Christian community. Culture Minister Ghulam Jamal said the film was blasphemous. The screen adaptation of Dan Brown’s book revolves around the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and their descendants survive today. A number of states in India have banned the film, although the federal censors have cleared it for release. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food. In a decree signed Wednesday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country. The retaliatory move comes more than a week after the United States and European Union increased economic sanctions on Moscow for supporting pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukraine government forces in the eastern regions of Donetsk […]
