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...mastered the recondite science of breaking wind unaromatically. As a journalist, Singh extensively investigated and exposed godmen, whom he regards as one manifestation of a dangerous surge of Hindu fundamentalism in India. "Religious fascism has taken roots in this soil," says Singh, a vitriolic opponent of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Is the encounter between Bhagwan, the Western-educated agnostic, and Ma Durgeshwari, the Hindu godwoman, an allegory of modern Nehruvian India being seduced by the dark forces of religious fundamentalism? Perhaps. But if Singh the political thinker sees godmen as a danger to India's secularism, Singh...
...There is no reason to believe the Palestinians plan to dump their elected president any time soon, and the most significant challenge to Arafat's leadership in Palestinian ranks comes from the Islamist radicals of Hamas and the rank-and-file of his own nationalist Fatah movement, which increasingly shares the Islamists' belief in the path of confrontation. Hence Sharon's recent remarks to an Israeli interviewer on his Gaza plan: "The Palestinians understand that this plan is, to a great extent, the end of their dreams, a very heavy blow to them," which, he said would "force them...
...Scene of Carnage Spain once suffered another terrible, unexpected and punitive attack [EUROPE, March 22]: the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German airplanes launched an all-out assault to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco break Basque resistance to his Nationalist forces, an event Pablo Picasso memorialized in his famous antiwar mural. TIME reported on the bombing in our May 10, 1937, issue...
Cold feet can be contagious: Central European governments leading their countries into the European Union next month are suffering at the polls. In Slovakia, the governing coalition's main presidential candidate lost out to hard-line nationalist and former Prime Minister Vladimír Meciar, who's the favorite going into the final round of voting this weekend. Although the post is largely ceremonial, the return of the controversial strongman would complicate relations with its new E.U. partners, says Grigorij Meseznikov, head of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava. "It's not good for the country," he says...
South Africa has been battling massive unemployment, crime and poverty in the 10 years since the historic 1994 elections, which ended apartheid and transferred power to Nelson Mandela’s African Nationalist Congress...