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I'll skip the first part of your question - that laws are anyway not under discussion and homosexuality and incest are not related. Homosexuality is OK from a legal standpoint and is not perversion, because -> There scientific evidence that it is biological. Some people are for some reason...

I have a problem with such relationships because one can never say whether it is fully consensual or if it is forced. If a father/mother forces the child, it would be near impossible to prove how that relationship developed. That's why I put in the phrase about "usual disclaimers". In that case...

Why do they have to ask the church for permission? The Church already has the right to stop all Christians from any such behavior. I think this will have the end result of Church ending up as the whipping boy -- a convenient tool to take blame for the anti-homosexual provisions.

Isn't this saga going on for years now ? Last time this came up and the government tried to legalize homosexuality, the right-wing parties acted up. Its been going from court-to-court for a while. The biggest opposition has been those people who are afraid that the homosexuals would try to...

Or maybe it is just an ammunition dump or assembly shop for all the goodies flowing in from Russia.

That is why I was comparing Gandhi with Iqbal.

Or Iran. It is surprising how well they have done considering their political problems. In 20 years they bought up the literacy rate from 66% to the current near full literacy. Maldives is a real champion too -- 97%!

The statistics they are talking about are from the 2009 report by UNESCO. The following is the table for literacy of different countries. http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/GMR/pdf/gmr2009/efagmr2009_Annex3_Statisticaltables.pdf Sri Lanka is doing very well at 91% literacy, so...

DAWN.COM | Editorial | Losing the literacy race Losing the literacy race Sunday, 28 Jun, 2009 | 01:57 AM PST font-size small font-size largefont-sizeprintemail share AT a time when the country is mired in serious crises, a numbers game focusing on who can and cannot read might appear...

When I meant Nehru and Jinnah had more in common, I meant in the sense that they both were political leaders of the respective nations. I'd leave their personal lives to themselves. Gandhi might be comparable to Allama Iqbal in the sense of their activities - ideological leaders . Others who...

This is one of the oddities of American politics. Politicians cannot take money for personal use. They cannot vote based on money being given either. But on the other hand, they can take money for political campaigns. They also can openly sell influence by agreeing to meet with big donors...

Sir Ratan Tata and Mahatma Gandhi: Rediff.com news In all humility I may say that I have come here also as a friend of the capitalists -- a friend of the Tatas. And here it would be ungrateful on my part, if I do not give you a little anecdote about how my connection with the Tatas began. In...

Huh ? Tata group existed before Indian government did. They had been doing business with what is now Pakistan for hundreds of years. They have set a standard for ethical business and patriotism through the independence struggle and after that -- I don't think anyone can question their...

A more apt comparison is probably between Nehru and Jinnah. They have more in common than Gandhi and Jinnah.

I don't think this was meant as pure symbolism. They assumed that when the borders were opened for trade it would automatically work. Seems like they ignored the other essential ingredients that we take for granted - banks, communication, trust etc.

I continue to maintain that what characterizes a terrorist is the method of action, not the intention or rightness/wrongness of cause. A terrorist hides among civilians (does not wear uniform or identify himself), attacks civilians, tries to "terrorize" the populace by either indiscriminate...

Incidents involving Lashkar-e-Toiba I posted the list of actions by LeT. Seems like they attack civilians more than Army.In most actions involving Army, the LeT people seem to get killed - so there is no need for Pakistan to act against those specific ones. Here is a list of interesting ones...

Wait till Pak Army has to do house to house searches to find the TTP men. That would quickly force the people to choose between an intrusive Army or extremist outfits.

Thanks for the civility and friendliness. Just a few corrections * Injun is a racist term, but aimed at a different group - the native Americans. Contrary to what you may have heard, there are very few of them in India. * Pakistan asked USA to move the consulates out. Supposedly, they conveyed...

This attack is bad for Pakistan and worse for India. In the best case this attack would turn the armed separatists against TTP and then TTP would face the combined forces Army and the other groups. But this seems pretty unlikely. It seems to me that this move is aimed at splitting the...