The Story Behind Nehru & Indira Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader, Ashok (Twitter handle: @nationalizer). It all started with a curiosity. I was going through the list of Bharat Ratna awardees which contains three of the six Nehru-Gandhi More...
ANNOUNCEMENT: DNA’s Mahafreed Irani sends notice to IndiaFacts
In response to the IndiaFacts article entitled DNA Mahafreed’s misleading reportage, which was published on 23 December 2013, Mahafreed Irani sent an email notice in which she indicated that she is considering More...
NCERT textbook falsifies Gujarat riot numbers
Instance The NCERT Class XI textbook entitled Political Theory in a chapter on Secularism (Chapter 8, page 112), makes the following statement with respect to the Gujarat riots (emphasis added): Nearly two thousand More...
Hindu temple destructions a myth: Richard Eaton
Assertion In an interview in the ThinkFest edition of Tehelka, historian Richard Eaton makes the following assertion: The total number of temples that were destroyed across those six centuries (from 1000 to 1600) More...
The UPA’S massive fraud on the Constitution
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader Jai Sharma. Shorn of all the verbiage the, the UPA’s minorities welfare programme, tomtommed as seeking “ the welfare of the Minorities” is a sinister More...
R.K. Singh is anti-RSS and anti-BJP
Assertion: Mr. RK Singh, former Home Secretary joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 13 December 2013. On 22 January 2013, this selfsame RK Singh had asserted that the BJP and RSS conduct terror camps. Facts On More...
How Christianity receives state patronage in Andhra Pradesh
Note: This is a guest article contributed by IndiaFacts reader Ashok. Imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if Narendra Modi just as much as mentions the Hindu word: the whole nation will decry his “majoritarian More...
Rajaji foresaw the rot in Congress
The corrupt-beyond-belief Congress party of today is just the ripened fruit of this corruption’s roots which go back several decades. Indeed, eminent Congress leaders and statesmen of the past foresaw this More...
IndiaFacts Impact: Sagarika Ghose Apologizes
In keeping with the IndiaFacts credo of reintroducing decency in public discourse, we ran a Fact Check on Sagarika Ghose’s tweet that called the Supreme Court judge–who delivered the Section 377 verdict–a crackpot. As More...
Sagarika Ghose maybe liable for contempt of court
Instance: Criticizing the recent Supreme Court Judgment on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, where the SC held that the Section 377—which criminalizes carnal intercourse against the order of nature—does More...