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Book review by U. Mahesh Prabhu
When President George W. Bush assumed office in 2000, his administration inherited a small budget surplus. President Barack Obama, today, faces a national debt of $10 trillion – about 70 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) or 18 percent of the world economy. So where did all that …

Book Review by U. Mahesh Prabhu

In Hinduism itself Krishna, as a person, as a statesman and/or as a God, has been subjected to criticism; not just his detractors but even those who believed in his divinity have criticized him. Scores of his devotees across the ages have sung him in, both, love and rage. However, it was only after …

Book review by U. Mahesh Prabhu
Nine years have passed since United States of America, along with its allies, commenced its “War on Terror”. Yet, what we see on ground is far from encouraging. Taliban is still operational; its ally Al-Qaeda along with its leader Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose perpetrating terror on “infidels”. …

When Muslims in democratic societies demand for “a room for Islamic prayer”, for “liberty” to wear head scarf or call for newspapers “to refrain from publishing Mohammed’s cartoons”, Islam’s apologists support them by referring to “freedom of faith”. By comparing Islam to other religion(s) and by presenting arguments like “What would you do if you were not allowed to practice …

Book Review by U. Mahesh Prabhu
With “9/11 mosque” controversy in New York is already making news, not just in the United States but also across every free thinking world. A question as to whether it is appropriate to build a mosque so close to a place where World Trade Centre once stood before it was brought …

By U. Mahesh Prabhu
Remember Fareed Zakaria’s much hyped book “The Post-American World” which claimed that it was “not about the decline of America, but rather rise of everyone else”? It was a jolly good read for non-Americans, specifically, as it spoke of the “tallest building, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones all being …

By U. Mahesh Prabhu
This book by Stephen Schwartz (a Sufi Muslim) consists of unusual account focusing on a murderous cult in Islam called “Wahhabism”. He fervently believes that “Islamaphobia” is owing to acts of “misguided” Muslims “in the name of Islam”. “Wahhabism”, the actual state religion of Saudi Arabia is, according to him, “one of the …

WORLD PASSPORT FOR GLOBAL MANAGER | Author: WALTER E. VIEIRA | Publisher: UNICORN BOOKS | Pages: 169 | ISBN: 978-81-7806-184-9 |

That there exists a difference between “speaking” and “communicating” isn’t known to many. The fact that “we communicate much before we speak” may be termed silly. Similarly, that “our whole body communicates and conveys ideas about ourselves to others” may …

A large section of Muslims created hullabaloo recently for banning of Dr. Zakir Naik from entering UK. “He’s banned for having spoken the truth.” many Muslims along with their apologists assert. “See he has proved the supremacy of Islam in front of several religious leaders.” This idea of having “proved the supremacy of Islam” for these Muslims is little more …

Corera’s book links the death of the Pakistani dictator with the nuclear trafficking between Pakistan and Iran, says Mahesh Prabhu
Shopping for Bombs, Gordon Corer,Foundation Books, Rs 1295
Is it possible that the Pakistan’s nuclear sale to Iran in the 1980s was made without Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s approval and that he died because he had got close to the information in August 1988 …

Someone once convinced Jamsetji Tata that ‘the country which will have Steel would have Gold’. Ever since then he passionately pursued the idea as a dream. His beginning was not fine, yet he never gave up for giving India its own Steel Industry. He had to wait for years until he could meet Lord George Hamilton for availing the cooperation …