Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 15 March-22 March 2015
1. Woman killed in Tripura for practicing witchcraft Report: A 55-year-old tribal woman was killed by her neighbours in Tripura for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Tuesday. Kanyapati Debbarma, More...
Mr. Siddaramaiah, where has your integrity gone now?
This is the translation of the original Kannada article by the MP of Mysuru-Kodagu, Pratap Simha that appeared in Kannada Prabha today. Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. We’ve seen how you smacked your biceps More...
Ground report: Treatment of Hindu students in Christian colleges
This real-life episode was sent to IndiaFacts by Jithu from Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The entire text is verbatim except for corrections in spelling and grammar. For a few months, I studied B.Sc Physics in a local More...
Muslims vs Islam
‘Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge More...
Anti-Cow slaughter legislation: Panic in Bangladesh
Even as controversy over recent legislations to ban cow slaughter occupy news space in India, here is how it has impacted our neighbour Bangladesh according to this Daily Star report. Beef prices are soaring mainly More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 8 March-15 March 2015
1. Denied temple access, Dalit converts to Islam Report: Shyam, a member of the Dalit Valmiki community in Moga village of Meerut, converted to Islam two weeks ago. A landless labourer, he didn’t convert More...
Cultural stereotypes, rapes, and German cannibalism
Note: I posted the following letter on Twitter, as a satirical response to stereotyping about Indian men by a German professor, who was supported by German media. Disclaimer: This is satire about stereotyping. More...
India’s Daughter: A Reader’s Response
To The Editor IndiaFacts Dear Sir I am attaching a letter on the aforesaid subject matter of your article titled India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism. If possible, please publish the same in your web-site More...
Seven years of Hindu persecution in West Bengal: a Report
This report was sent by Hindu Samhati, an organization working for Hindu causes in West Bengal. The report gives a brief description of 34 incidents of Hindu persecution that took place between March 2008 and January More...
IndiaFacts Webinar: Approaches to the study of Indology
IndiaFacts is delighted to announce its monthly webinar. The following are the details of the webinar: Topic: Approaches to the study of Indology Speaker: Dr. Bharat Gupt Date: 10 March 2015 Time: 7 PM To join, More...