Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 2
Read part 1 here. Bridge of discourse between ‘This Hindu’ and ‘That Hindu’ Hindus need to be wary of the intractable opposition between “This Hindu and “That Hindu” that is falsely posited and perpetrated More...
Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 1
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a scholarly critique of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History published in 2009. This book published by Penguin was withdrawn by the publisher More...
Cows smuggled with mouths stitched
A shocker of a news report on how cows are brutally smuggled comes from Bidar in Karnataka. The following is a paraphrase of a news report that first appeared in the Kannada newspaper Hosa Diganta. On Wednesday More...
Rahul Gandhi: A Multi-Fact Meter
Note: This is a departure from IndiaFacts’ usual format of a Fact Meter, which typically involves a single assertion or claim followed by an examination of the facts and then followed by the Fact Meter More...
Know your AAP
Ever since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took the reins of the Delhi administration, its ministers–starting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal–have distinguished themselves with making crass statements More...
IndiaFacts Expose: Unmasking Aadhaar
That the scam-tainted UPA Government’s much-touted and ambitious project of giving a Unique Identification Number (UID)–also known as Aadhaar–to every Indian citizen went haywire from day one is More...
Kicking disabled people: AAP style
A worker of the Aam Aadmi Party, which now heads the state of Delhi, recently distinguished himself at an Aurangabad public protest meet where he repeatedly kicked a disabled individual who had fallen down, in full More...
2014 Elections: Quick Quotes
Because the election season has more or less begun, IndiaFacts, in keeping with its credo of restoring decency in public discourse, presents some quick quotes sent in by a reader. The goal is to help the reader More...
Gangapur under siege by Muslim hooligans
Close on the heels of the IndiaFacts report on the large scale violence against Hindus in Panchla comes yet another similar incident whereby innocent and peaceful Hindus have been targeted by Muslim vandals in More...
Rahul Kanwal: Majority in favour of Kejriwal dharna
Assertion On 20 January 2014, Aaj Tak and Headlines Today editor Rahul Kanwal made the following claim on Twitter: Facts On 20 January 2014, Aaj Tak conducted a poll with the following question (translated More...