Rajya Sabha Member BALBIR K. PUNJ against Christians

Who killed the 84-year-old swami? Sabyasachi Panda, the Maoist leader who owned up to the killing, said the swami was eliminated for reviving Brahminism. Strangely, Panda turned a blind eye to evangelism. But he divulged an interesting fact—that the Christian Panas (an SC group) provides cadres to the Maoists in Orissa.  I for one don't know how to reconcile evangelism, which believes in the harvesting of souls, with Maoism, which believes there's no soul. In Europe, wherever Communism succeeded, the Church had to go underground, if not disappear. But in Orissa, perhaps there is some kind of 'strategic alliance' happening. Did the Church outsource the swami's assassination?  Now to the alleged rape of a nun in Kandhamal. Such 'Rape of nun by Hindu fascist' stories have turned out to be false in Jhabua, Jajjhar and Baripada in the past.Unfortunately, by then the 'hot story' had gone cold for the media. We are witnessing another edition of this in Kandhamal. The nun would not attend the identification parade, the SC ruled out a CBI inquiry, but the National Commission for Minorities still jumped into the fray. Is the nun a pawn in the church's game of chess?   read it all 

Mission Successful: 300 villages in Orissa now stand purged of Christians

OPINION, Outlook.com Oct 3, 2008

The Crucifixion Of Words

How bad language makes it easier to tolerate violence

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NEELABH MISHRA

.......... In the context of such violence by their cadres and supporters, luminaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party have time and again demanded a "national debate" on conversion to their fold by Christians whose number ironically has shrunk in India from more than 2.8 per cent around the time of Independence to less than two-and-a-half per cent now. Christian groups claim that nearly 300 villages in Orissa now stand purged of Christians—they have either fled or been converted to Hinduism by force. So here is your debate on conversion—not through arguments articulated in words but scored by inflicting physical violence. "National debate" has a new meaning: bash the Christians up. Rob, murder and rape them. Along with the violence inflicted on humanity, I also mourn the violence inflicted on language wherein an innocuous word like debate has been contorted to connote a sinister new meaning. Remember George Orwell.

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Frankenstein's Monsters by B. Raman

OPINION, Outlook.com Oct 3, 2008

Frankenstein's Monsters

If the Bajrang Dal comes to be viewed as a suspected terrorist organization, the first to feel the pressure and adverse effect will be the supporters of the organization in the Hindu diaspora abroad. It is in their interest to exercise pressure on the Bajrang Dal and drive some sense into it. more