In the Media

Dawn, Pakistan - 23rd May 2008

Govt urged to stop Junoon's Srinagar performance

The United Jihad Council (UJC) has asked the federal government to stop the rock music band Junoon from performing in Srinagar, saying it may send a 'wrong message' to Kashmiris.

Madanjeet Singh, The Hindu - 11th April 2008

Music has no religion

Fundamentalists and fanatics are barking up the wrong tree. Never ever has any obstruction or suppression of culture stopped the arts and music from transcending national boundaries.

Special Correspondent, The Hindu - 7th March 2008

SAARC to collaborate in social science research

Seven members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation will step up collaborative and individual social science research in their countries to help to devise policies on the basis of scientific evidence.

Special Correspondent, The Hindu - 23rd November 2007

Affront to India's pluralist culture

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh has expressed shock at the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen being compelled to leave West Bengal because of her secular views.

The Hindu - 30th May 2007

Talibanisation of Sikhism

The Sikh fundoos have distorted out of all recognition the militant order of Khalsa that Guru Gobind Singh instituted in 1699. It is incomprehensible how anyone can project nine years of Khalsa as the raison d'�tre of Sikhism and give it precedence over 239 years of the history of Sikh Gurus.