RSS has breached its undertaking
Assertion: Vidya Subramhaniam, in an article titled The Forgotten Promise of 1949 in the Hindu makes the following claims. 1. The RSS wrote a non-political role for itself as part of an undertaking it gave Sardar More...
Muslims don't need to repay loans
Assertion: Speaking at a workshop held to chalk out schemes for minorities, Karnataka Congress party Chief G. Parameshwar suggested that The Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation, instead of sanctioning More...
Hindu Temples have a Role in Stifling Societal Change: Newslaundry
Assertion: In an article that examines Narendra Modi and Jairam Ramesh’s temples and toilets statements, Ranjan Crasta at Newslaundry makes the following assertion: …temples have long played a role More...
New York Times' Misleading Claims about Hinduism
Assertion: In an article in the New York Times’ blogs on India, writer Raksha Kumar makes the following claims: Mr. Kujur and his family converted to Hinduism seven years ago. As a member of the Oraon More...
Laxmanananda Saraswati unmourned yet again
When the 80-year old Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was brutally gunned down by a heavily armed mob of fanatical Christians on the fateful night of 23 August 2008, I wrote the next day that he is not Graham Staines. More...
Did Nawaz Sharif call Manmohan Singh a Dehati Aurat?
Assertion: On the eve of Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif’s meeting in New York, the Pakistani Prime Minister invited some journalists to a breakfast meeting in which he called Manmohan Singh a “dehati aurat.” More...
Gandhi was a Heterodox Hindu: Ramachandra Guha
Assertion: In an article in The Hindu about what the Hindus should be proud of and what they should be ashamed of, Ramachandra Guha makes several fantastic and misleading claims about Hindus and Hinduism. Of More...
ASI's Assault on Shankaracharya Hill
According to this Tribune news report, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has summarily renamed the Shankaracharya Hill to Takht-e-Suleiman overlooking the Dal Lake in Srinagar. If this was not enough, More...
Is Congress Government trying to dilute liability of US Companies?
Issue: The Manmohan Singh Government has proposed to dilute the provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act 2010 by incorporating the suggestions of the Attorney-General Vahnavati. Facts: Attorney-General More...
Zero Dead in Assam Communal Riots: RPN Singh
Assertion: On 7 May 2013, Mr. RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs tabled a report in Parliament about the number of casualties in communal riots in all states in India. The report gives the casualty More...