Kapil Sibal Claims he does not own stake in Tehelka
Assertion: In the wake of sexual molestation charges against Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal, Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal issued the following statement: I don’t have any stake in Tehelka…When More...
AAP Slanders Narendra Modi
It is a given that the pre-poll pitch is raised to a fever by all contestants as the date gets nearer and nearer. And so it is with the Delhi, which goes to the polls on 4 December 2014. Hitherto, Delhi has witnessed More...
Sexual Assault in Indian Media: A Victim Speaks Out
IndiaFacts columnist, Dr. Shobha Srivastava in her analysis of the Tarun Tejpal sexual assault episode, mentioned similar cases of harassment of women in the Indian media. One of these was the tragic case of a More...
Guha’s Congress Definition is Opportunistic
Assertion Ramachandra Guha provides the following definitions of the Congress party in two separate articles, written for separate publications. In the first written in the Times of India on 13 November 2013, More...
Aam Aadmi Party: False Saints, Feigned Piety
Note: This piece was submitted by IndiaFacts reader Sanjit Misra. In the land of the blind, the one eyed has to be the king; in the kingdom of immorality, even a pretension of probity is a ticket to sainthood. More...
Karnataka & Maharashtra ruled by BJP: Rahul Gandhi
Assertion: In an election speech in Delhi on 17 November 2013, Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi made the following assertion: Go…go to the BJP-ruled states…in Karnataka, in Maharashtra, More...
The Hindu Mischaracterizes Narendra Modi
Note: IndiaFacts is happy to publish the second reader-contributed fact check piece that counters instances of distortions about facts relating to Hinduism, India, and public discourse. We are delighted to inform More...
Girish Karnad gets a dose of his own medicine
Note: The following is a translation of the front page story run by the Kannada daily, Vijaya Vani. The original report can be accessed here. What is noteworthy is that none of the English newspapers carried More...
When removal of superstition becomes an assault
Note: The following article is a translation of Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh's piece in Kannada that appeared in Vijaya Vani published on 10 November 2013. This translation also incorporates several points More...
RSS wasn't associated with freedom struggle: Telegraph
Note: As part of IndiaFacts’ call to the public to send us instances of distortions about facts relating to Hinduism and India, we are delighted to inform that Mr. Seshadri from Chennai has sent us the following More...