Fundamentalism

INTRODUCTION Chetan Baghat was born on 22 April 1974 in New Delhi in a Punjabi family. He attended Army public school from 1978 to 1991 in New Delhi. During 1991to 1995 he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Chetan Baghat studied his masters at the Indian Institute of management (IIM), Ahmedabad. In IIM he was named ‘The Best outgoing student’. In IIM, he fell in love with Anusha and eventually married her. The couples have twins Ishaan and Shyam.…

In life, we face many challenges, good and bad. Depending on how we act upon those challenges, we develop into a mature adult learning from those, or let those challenges take ahold of us, becoming weak. In Abir’s (Ali Eteraz) situation, he learned from these encounters and became the man he did. These challenges can be seen as social, cultural, geographical and/or political “influences”, specifically on Abir’s religious identity, influencing him in and out of the Islamic faith. With these, he…

Main Thesis: Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1993 for the publication Foreign Affairs magazine. In this article, he is trying to point out that the world politics was moving towards a new page where there will be future conflict would occur between civilizations based on cultural differences. According to Huntington, these cultural fault lines were divided up between eight civilizations: ?Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu,…

speaker on “Secular elements in Urdu Poetry”. Also he has been a speaker at University of London on “Modern Urdu Poetry”. Apart from being a lyricist, he is also a social activist with an avid interest in Indian politics, communal harmony and fundamentalism. It is hard to believe that such…

In the United States, the majority of Americans believe in God and there is a resurgence of religious fundamentalism." - (What is Religion?, Robert Crawford, p.5), Religion isn’t only applied into oneself, it is studied in different ways to learn more about its origin and interpret ideas and practices, I noted in one of my essays that “…a great way to study…

researchers to interpret the events of post-9/11 era. Applying the Orientalism theory, Nayak (2006) argues that the ‘Self’/’Other’ dialectic is due to the fear of ‘Self’ from ‘Others’ and also the desperate need of ‘Self’ US to a coded Islamic fundamentalism of threatening ‘Others’. There is also a correlation between the Orientalism aspect of ‘Self’ or ‘West’ as a nation and the theory of ‘Imagined communities’, proposed by Anderson (1996). According to Anderson, nations are imagined…

hinders the path of development and upliftment of our country. Arvind Kejrival has also stated that, “Communalism is a bigger problem than corruption.” The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in 1992, demonstrated the power of religious fundamentalism in India, which prides itself on its democracy and religious tolerance. This showed what effect the communalism can have in politics. BJP benefitted immensely from the communal passions of the Hindus which were the majority population in the…

Marxism believed that our society was in a state of continual conflict between the working class and upper class, this essay will assess the Marxist approach on social class a theory stemmed from the works of Karl Marx, that believes our society to be in a state of constant struggle between the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat). Within society, according to social stratification people are placed in particular divisions based on a system of hierarchy. This has…

Neoliberalism and political economy Neoliberal political economy is another form of economy within the capitalist mode of production and replacing the Keynesian welfare state with pro corporate state. Post Soviet Union disintegration; most of the state adopted willingly and some places forcibly implemented the neoliberal economy. The neoliberal economy unlike the previous capitalist model came with more unprecedented development advanced information technology and promoting aggressive…

On September 11, 2012, radical members of the Islamic State carefully executed planned attacks on the United States Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya. They attacked the building at gunpoint at 9:40pm, however the US Ambassadors hid in a secret room and could not be found, so the attackers burst the buildings into flames at 10:30pm, killing everyone hidden inside. The attacks continued at 4am when a brutal attack using mortars launched at a CIA facility, killing two Navy SEALs. This violence…