Category: World News

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London: The number of Britons seeking gender identity treatment has shot up dramatically in recent years, leaving vulnerable people waiting years for a specialist appointment.                     (Note: UK reportedly has just over...

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Dallas R eminder

  Editorial  in Indian Express, July 12, 2016 Protests in the US underline that the nation has not fully confronted its demons. (Note: “White House” has been and will continue for many more years, the paradoxical, provocative symbol of America....

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India must walk the talk in its outreach to the continent

Modi tour 4 nations in Africa: TOI  Editorial,  July 8, 2016                    (Note:  For two things Modiji has to be complimented: 1. The frequency with which he makes foreign tours, 2. Visiting more than one country in one tour following...

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Sexual, feminine, global revolution interview

 German sociologist Gabriele Kuby discusses conversion, the global sexual revolution, freedom, family, and faith By  Alvino-Mario Fantini in Catholic World Report  (Note: This piece was forwarded by our friend Bernard in NY, as he found it a “Must Read”.After reading ...

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Islamic State poses Clear  and present danger

By The New Indian Express, 02nd July 2016                    (Note: Yes,  if  ISIS took root in Iraq and Syria, who was finally responsible for it? To me it was George Bush chasing a desert mirage called “Weapons of Mass distruction” of...

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Jihad: who distorted it? Time for  Renaissance of  islam

By Ram Jethmalani, in New Indian Express,02nd July 2016                          (Note:  It is always a treat both to listen to or read Ram Jethmalani, the erudite lawyer and veteran politician. So I never miss reading him. Here I am tempted to...

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Brexit is another name for house-keeping

An Island: that is Britain Uddalok Bhattacharya, Hindustan Times, Jun 26, 2016 In the pic: A demonstrator draped in an EU flag sits on floor during a protest against the outcome of the UK's June 23 referendum on the European Union...

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Brexit – Isolationist catastrophe of ‘Brexit’

Brian Klaas and Marcel Dirsus, in Los Angels Times, 24/6/16 (Note:  For the last few months BREXIT has become the accepted short form of a discussion that  was analyzing the pros and cons. In this age of globalization and international...

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Scrub Islam Clean? Obama’s ‘Great Religion’ 

George Neumayr, THE SPECTATOR, ​ June 22, 2016 (Note:  If Obama administration can help “to scrub Islam clean” that would be his greatest contribution to world peace. Obama may be fond of  Islamic call to prayer three or four times during...

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Anti-gay bigotry or radical Islam?

Lessons of Orlando –  Patralekha Chatterjee, Jun 16, 2016 In the viciously polarised times we live in, how one frames the Orlando nightclub shooting depends on the questions one chooses to ask as well as the questions one leaves out                      ...

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Chicago archbishop decries targeting of gays in Orlando attack

LGBT bashing must stop David Gibson  Religion News Service   in NCR Jun. 13, 2016 Archbishop Blase Cupich walks down the aisle after his Installation Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 18, 2014. (Reuters/Charles Rex Arbogast/Pool) (Note: In this note...

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Trump’s Divided State of America

Donald Trump has a toxic agenda and will stop at nothing on his road to power Chidanand Rajghatta in Times of India, June 15/16                      (Note: This is a must read article as it provides...

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Deadliest mass shooting in US history

(In the pic: Kelvin Cobaris, a local clergyman, consoles Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, left, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida. Credit Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press)  Frank Bruni,  in New York Times, JUNE...

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First US Lady President?

Hillary makes history DECCAN CHRONICLE.Jun 8, 2016 No woman before her was officially projected by a leading American political party to fight for the presidency. Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton (Photo: AP) (Note: US the oldest democracy in the...

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Gotthard tunnel, world’s longest, deepest

Grand tunnel vision Editorial in Asian Age, Jun 02, 2016 (Note: “United we stand, divided we fall.”  That is what the wisdom of ages and achievements of humans working together constantly exhorts us even in the midst of all factional...