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Kathleen Taylor, Neuroscientist, Says Religious Fundamentalism Could Be Treated As A Mental Illness http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/kathleen-taylor-religious-fundamentalism-mental-illness_n_3365896.html The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 05/31/2013 12:21...

Sikhism Needs Liberal Democracy Ameek Singh Federal Financial Analyst, Accenture Posted: 03/01/2013 11:37 pm The West is the last place Sikh leaders have looked to for institutional guidance. To those who know our story, this should come as no surprise. Our parents immigrated to...

Sikhism Needs Liberal Democracy by Ameek Singh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ameek-singh/sikhism-needs-liberal-dem_b_2799966.html?utm_hp_ref=sikhism The West is the last place Sikh leaders have looked to for institutional guidance. To those who know our story, this should come as...

India won't be 'the world's largest democracy' until it upholds human rights Twenty-five years ago, India suspended part of its Constitution and launched a brutal campaign against Sikh separatists in its Punjab province. Today, India must provide reparations to the victims and vow to uphold...

Opinion India won't be 'the world's largest democracy' until it upholds human rights Twenty-five years ago, India suspended part of its Constitution and launched a brutal campaign against Sikh separatists in its Punjab province. Today, India must provide reparations to the victims and...

The definition of democracy according to dictionary.com is "Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." By definition democracy is the will of the...

How Democracy Became Halal By REUEL MARC GERECHT - THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: February 6, 2011 Tel Aviv IN the Western study of medieval Islamic history, the institution of iqta — land grants from the sovereign to his soldiers — once loomed large, because scholars searched for...

Krishna Kumar The teaching of reading during early childhood — when attitudes, habits and skills acquire life-long foundations — assumes crucial significance for the efficient functioning of democracy. Literacy is the foundation of school education but in our country the term ‘literacy'...

By ASIF ALI ZARDARI Two years ago the world stopped for me and for my children. Pakistan was shaken to its core and all but came apart. Women everywhere lost one of their greatest symbols of equality. And Islam, our great religion, lost its modern face. On Dec. 27, 2007, my...

And India Calls Itself a Democracy!<small>by RAHUL BEDI</small> <!-- <small>November 10th, 2009</small>--> This is the 64th piece in sikhchic.com's "1984 & I" Series, which is being presented to you through the 12 months of this year to commemorate the 25th anniversary of...

Prayaag Akbar tells the story of 1,000 years of caste-based repression, and of a people's quest for dignity under a democracy that has failed them. Vilas Ravi Raj, a Musahar, has brought his son Dileep, a shivering six-year old with bandages across his face like a zebra crossing, to the...

Democracy v/s Dictatorship In their rush to scribble newspaper articles arguing a line that the Indian state would love to hear, many journalists have succumbed to the temptation to compare Lal Masjid flushing out operation by the Pakistani...

For decades, American leaders and opinion makers have chosen to ignore the dark side of democratic India. Now new reports documenting the pervasive abuses committed by the Indian police are providing firsthand evidence not only of warrant less arrests, illegal detentions, torture and the...

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Corrupt Democracy in India By Barbara Crossette Sexual abuse in police stations. Crimes "solved" by countless extrajudicial killings. Life-threatening prison conditions. Widespread torture. Thousands of unpunished murders in politically inspired pogroms. Sixty million children in forced...

Tehleka NEWS Magazine Continued from Part One ‘When He Sees A Cop, He Wets His Pants’ CHANDU SINGH, Lost 7 family members SINCE NOVEMBER 1, 1984, Chandu Singh has been afraid of the police. Chandu is not a thief but he hides like one anytime he sees a man in uniform. It was...

Democracy as taught in schools is "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". I am curious to know if democracy type thing is allowed in Sikhism. According to me democratic rule is not a way of Sikh living. Please comment.

JALANDHAR: As the world watched media images of clean-shaven Buddhist monks in maroon marching down Yangon's streets demanding democracy in Myanmar, the attention of some was drawn to a bearded, turbaned man. Incongruous as it seemed, it was a Sikh fighting with the pro-democracy agitators. More...

In its struggle with Islamic extremism, the United States has had few better friends than President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, who has provided intelligence and military facilities...

washingtonpost.com - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday set out ambitious goals for the Bush administration's push for greater democracy overseas over the next four years, including pressing for competitive presidential elections this year in Egypt and women's right to vote in Saudi...