Mainstream Weekly

Is Malaysia turning into a Theocratic State?

S.K. Dutta — 2013-03-06T08:30:32Z

Malaysia, a very important country in South-East Asia and a vital member of the ASEAN, is facing a huge turmoil in the last couple of years with the hard-core Islamist fundamentalists hell-bent upon the turning the country into a hard-core Islamist state based on the Shariat with Islam as the state religion. Already there are several provinces in Malaysia which follow the Shariat like Selangor, Penang and others; it is also an accepted reality that Malaysia turned Islamic way back in the (…)

- 2013

Can We Get Back the Black Kohinoor?

S.K. Dutta — 2011-06-28T14:18:05Z

Of late there is a lot of talk on the issue of black money which is stashed in the foreign banks abroad and how to bring it back. Ever since veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani raised this subject in the 2009 Lok Sabha election the issue of black money together with price rise has become like the never-ending quick-sand for UPA-II. In my understanding, the biggest achievements of UPA-II for 2010-11 are price rise and the series of corruption scams; now the black money issue seems to be giving (…)

- 2011

Paradise Lost in Terror

S.K. Dutta — 2010-10-19T11:05:08Z

“If There Is Paradise On Earth,
It Is Here, It Is Here, It Is Here”
Nothing can better explain the beauty and culture of Kashmir then the above quote from Nishant Bagh which today is in turmoil with decades of violence, militancy, terror, aided and abided by Pakistan with vested political parties playing in it to keep the problem simmering. The last two months have seen the government machinery totally failing in Srinagar and the government in Delhi absolutely clueless as to how to (…)

- 2010

The Withering Lotus

S.K. Dutta — 2009-10-11T11:24:22Z

The way things are happening in the BJP it seems it's heading towards the doomsday. Two election debacles have had a catastrophic affect on the party. The unexpected defeat in 2004 and the near washout in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls have taken a heavy toll on the party and the BJP today seems to be a party which is rudderless.
For finding out as to what has gone wrong with the BJP one has to look at it very deeply. The problem with the party today is that it is not headed by a single (…)

- October 2009

Xinjiang: China's Palestine

S.K. Dutta — 2009-08-05T08:26:04Z

The recent violence in Xinjiang or former East Turkmenistan, which has left more than 150 dead, is just the tip of the iceberg as to what is happening inside China. China is a country which survives under the iron curtain where the press and free thought processes are censored. People are not allowed to assemble together in social groups. No one is allowed to speak against the government's policies. The conditions of the ethnic minorities, whether Tibetans, Manchus, Mongols or the Uighurs, (…)

- August 2009