Social Issues

The sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans. This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to depict the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life and the attitudes of his detractors, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates. More to the point, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this book, for the first time ever, psycho-analyzes the imperativ...

The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a  dustbin. Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim ...

This book is about BDSM and other forms of sexual expressionIt is all fact and based on my own experiences as a “Master” in the BDSM world for twenty style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">This book goes beneath that to show what really happens when one strays into the “darker side” of style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">What is BDSM? What does it involve?What sort of people are into itWhat do they get out of it?Plus: some other sexual "kinks"How can BDSM survive in the enlightened age of the “Me too” movement: What is "consensual sexual behaviour?" How does one consent  to what some would regard as abuse?Over a pe...