The Science of Tradition
For years the mystery of how homing pigeons found their way home confounded scientists. Accurate navigation in adverse weather over long distance flight is a skill that human technology is only now mastering. More...
California Textbook Controversy: ‘India’ not to be replaced with ‘South Asia’
Sacramento, California, May 20: In what may bring relief to hundreds of Indian American families of California, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) that met on Thursday to decide upon the final stages of More...
California Textbook Controversy: ‘Scholars for People’ sends final letter to CBE
California is currently debating the portrayal of Indian history in their school textbooks. A small group of South Asia studies faculty had asked the California Board of Education (CBE) to remove references to More...
Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: April 2016
Idol of Balarama stolen from a temple in Ajmer An idol of Balarama, which is said to have been around 500 years old, has been stolen from Ramsar village belonging to the Nasirabad sub-division in Ajmer, Uttar More...
Lobbying Funds for Gender Specific Laws via FCRA
What is this article about? A Washington DC based non-profit organization called International Foundation for Electoral Systems, gave rise to a FCRA-NGO called Women Power Connect in New Delhi, more than a decade More...
Just The Facts, Prof. Chomsky
Dear Prof. Chomsky, I first heard your name when, as a Computer Science student at IIT Kanpur, I studied the Chomsky-Normal Form for specifying formal languages. Many years later, I came across “Manufacturing More...
State Of The Indian Media: Interview With Shalini Singh
This is an IndiaFacts interview with senior journalist Shalini Singh who shares her variegated experiences working in the Indian media over a period of 20 years and her assessment of the current state of the Indian More...
Mechanics of Evangelism: Strategies for Proselytizing in Non-friendly Environments and Closed Countries
[contextly_sidebar id=”2eG2CsbK9rnZ5Qxf3Hov08bp3aunCHhw”] Seven Hundred Plans to Evangelize the World by David B. Barrett and James W. Reapsome lists down broad strategies for conversion activities in More...
Our 16 Favourites of 2015: Editors’ Picks
It’s two days past the new year, a fun time to make lists and look back at 2015, which seemed to zoom by and ended before we realized it. Apart from other lists at IndiaFacts, we like to think this one as an In-house More...
Whose New Year? Return to a Better Calendar
In India we increasingly celebrate the New Year according to the Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory, who instituted it. A Calendar has scientific, social and cultural significance. Other than synchronizing More...