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While going through some research work, I came across an article by scroll.in mentioning about a new book asking "Why is Shiva represented by a sexual symbol". Last paragraph of the article says:

Why I Am Not a Muslim certainly deserves the epithet "courageous" with which R. J. Hoffmann introduces it in his Foreword, not so much because of its thesis that Islamic civilization often reached magnificent heights despite the religion of Islam, as because almost all the fundamental tenets of Islam are here scrutinized uncompromisingly. Moreover, Ibn Warraq's criticisms are no idiosyncrasies, but supported with very extensive references to scholarly works. His book is particularly valuable as a means of acquainting oneself with this scholarship.

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Kal Bhairav temple in Varanasi, journalist Abhisar Sharma had an epic meltdown on social media.

Two months after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, that resulted in 8 deaths, took place, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case has ruled that it was a deliberate act.

In a video which has gone viral on social media, controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai is heard that journalists behave like vultures.

On December 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the newly built Kashi Vishwanath Corridor to the nation. The Kashi Vishwanath Dham, a prime religious pilgrimage centre for the Hindus, was spread across only 3,000 square feet before the project started. It now spreads over a 5,00,000 square feet area.

Just couple of days back Satyaagrah wrote two articles on Saint Teresa, 1. Saint Teresa, who was no saint: The dark side of not so pious history of Mother Teresa and 2. Saint or Sadist: Reality check of saint of the gutters Mother Teresa, and today we have news on Missionaries' Conversion racket running at her shelter home for women. 

In a letter dated August 20, 1993, Janata Dal MP Syed Shahabuddin has asked the Minister of State for Home, PM Sayeed, to ban the book Hindu View of Christianity and Islam by Ram Swarup (Voice of India, New Delhi 1992). It is not his first time: in 1988, Shahabuddin was instrumental in getting Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses banned. This time he has not been equally successful in getting the book swiftly banned, but judicial proceedings are under way to get it banned after all. As a European India-watcher, I leave it to Indian commentators to advise the public on how...

No newspaper or periodical worth its name in India will publish what I write in the lines that follow. Not because the subject matter is seditious or sacrilegious or obscene, or even controversial, but simply because it defies the Emergency imposed on this country by Muslim theologians and politicians backed by 'secularist' intellectuals and politicians and riotous Muslim mobs and plain terrorists.