List of Chennai-based Evangelical organizations receiving foreign funding
Chennai has 545 organizations of various hues engaged in various activities impacting public life and society, and operating in various spheres in the non-profit (NGO) and/or charitable sector, which received More...
Soul harvesting as an onsite-offshore business model
It is undeniable that the early successes of the Indian IT owed tremendously to what is now commonly known as the onsite-offshore business model. Here’s typically how the model works. Let us assume the client More...
Why Murti-puja is an antidote to fundamentalism
Forgive me, Oh, Shiva, my three paap! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that you are omnipresent. In thinking about you I forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to You I forgot that You are beyond More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest:11 January-18 January 2015
1. Facing Intolerance, many Sikhs and Hindus leave Afghanistan Report: Rawail Singh, a leader of Kabul’s Sikh community stated that he worries that his tiny religious minority community could disappear entirely More...
What the CAG report said about Leela Samson
This Hindu news report mentions that Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief Leela Samson has put in her papers on Thursday. To affix the “controversial” adjective to Leela Samson is to state the obvious. Proximity More...
Important questions about foreign funding to orphanages
Over the last decade, several so-called orphanages have mushroomed all over India, in particular along our Eastern Coast and in Southern India funded by foreign agencies. Some of them were established purportedly More...
Jawaharlal Nehru the committed Communist
This essay forms the foreword of Sita Ram Goel’s study of Jawaharlal Nehru titled Genesis and Growth of Nehruism. Authored by the former British Comintern agent Philip Spratt in 1963, it is a relatively More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest:5 January-11 January 2015
1. Hindu girl forced to convert to Islam, lodges FIR in Ranchi Report: On 8 January a twenty five year old Hindu girl lodged an FIR against husband Waqar Danish Anwar claiming that he was torturing her for the last More...
PK is slow poison
This article was sent by IndiaFacts reader, Anand Mathur. You can follow him on Twitter @anand153. No one can deny the fact that cinema is one of the most powerful mediums of communication. Not only does it act More...
IndiaFacts impact: WELS takes down its blog after our expose
On 31 December 2014, the IndiaFacts team exposed the rape of a minor girl by a Parish in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)-funded orphanage near Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Our expose focused on the various More...