Indiblog

India

When Michael Jackson Rocked Mumbai

(This is a guest column by Roger Alexander.) Michael Jackson performed in Bombay, in fact India, only once - on October 31, 1996 – as part of the HIStory tour that year. ...1 comment
Moral police – Rise of the Hindu Taliban

Girls wearing jeans or mini skirts, girls smoking and drinking, Valentine's day, girls talking to guys have all been of late victims of a growing moral police in India. This self-styled ...3 comments
Wrongly blaming Indian Muslim backwardness for terrorism

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have dominated the news and rightly so. Once they were over, analysts and writers started publishing opinion articles. Many of them ...2 comments
India-US relations under President Barack Obama

How is Obama's presidency going to affect US relations with India? Firstly, it was the Democrat administration of Clinton that catapulted relations with India ...3 comments
Nuclear deal: India defied domestic pressure, now faces international pressure

Manmohan Singh let go of his Leftist allies and braved a confidence vote to clinch the nuclear deal with US. But now he faces a bigger challenge of convincing Austria, ...2 comments

Karunanidhi criticizes Hindus because India is secular – what’s the logic?

Being the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, it is rather irresponsible of Karunanidhi to criticize only Hindus in the name of secularism. He has done it ...1 comment
Dangerous Rise of the Religious Right in India

The so-called secularism practiced by most political parties in India is synonymous with Muslim appeasement and therefore the dissatisfaction. However, instead of trying to implement respect ...0 comments
Hindu-Christian tensions rising and are here to stay

With Christian missionaries invading India in hordes and converting Indians by deceitful and shameful means, tensions with the majority Hindu population were only waiting to happen. The trigger was ...12 comments
Krishna was a playboy, but an AIDS activist, He wasn’t

This image looks alright at the outset, but it has a red ribbon for the AIDS campaign on the top right ...6 comments
Shiva ashram/temple in Hawaii, the middle of Pacific Ocean

In Kauai, one of the islands of the Hawaii archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a sight to behold: ...3 comments

Insensitive ruckus over decriminalization of gay sex in India

Applause to the Delhi High Court for invalidating the use of Section 377 against men indulging in gay sex! A triumph to human rights and the government staying ...2 comments
Anti-sodomy law invalid: 1500 animal species practice homosexuality

Homosexuality is practiced in over 1500 species of animals including lions, killer whales and even insects. Man's evolutionary predecessors also indulge freely in gay love, a classic example being the bonobo ...2 comments
Ministries wrangle over the law against homosexuality

Some organizations working against AIDS and for homosexuals petitioned the HC which asked the Central government for a response. The Home Ministry headed by Shivraj Patil ...1 comment
Masks and protests mark India’s gay pride parades

For the first time this year, gay pride was celebrated in four Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. The parades were only little celebration however. In ...2 comments
Law against Love! Homosexuality still illegal in India

Homosexuality is still illegal in India, thanks to a British colonial law incorporated in the Indian Penal Code. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code declares homosexuality illegal; it states: "Whoever voluntarily has sex against the order ...9 comments

Bush blames Indian middle class upsetting our politicians!

The world over food prices have drastically increased affecting the common man. The developed world is weathering this problem with subsidies and economic stimulus plans, which ...3 comments
India gives Tibet to China, next Arunachal?

So the Olympic flame ran through Delhi albeit a much shorter route. And how many police were deployed to guard it? Delhi was famously called a ...0 comments
India falling into a Nuclear trap with bully USA?

Many have warned that India is losing its sovereignity by entering the nuclear deal with USA. The thing is, US has imposed far too many restrictions on India as conditions to the deal. And India ...3 comments
Monarchy on the verge of fall in Nepal?

Its been ages now since the King of Nepal killed all of his family and usurped the throne for himself.If that sounds gruesome to you, don't be alarmed, for kings all through the ...1 comment
Bollywood in Germany – How a German sees Hindi movies

or what makes me run some Bollywoodblog.de in German. Sooraj invited me to write some little article here in IndiBlog about me and my most-of-my-freetime eating Passion: Bollywood . (After finishing i see its not ...6 comments