Eight reasons why the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ is already upon us
We are witnessing one horrific terrorist attack after another the world over and it shows absolutely no signs of stopping. Since 2015, there seems to be at least one incident in Europe every month. In 1993, American More...
Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India
Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, More...
Hasta la vista Sonia! It’s all over for her and the rest
I had written on IndiaFacts earlier on how a lot of behind the scenes, frenetic activity is going on after Prime Minister Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014: And You Thought Modi Was Doing Nothing! In that More...
Five Reasons Why They Love Ishrat Jahan
On 15 June 2004, the Pranesh-Amjad-Zeeshan encounter took place. Pranesh Pillai (a.k.a. Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar perished at the hands of the police and inputs were received from the More...
Nehru Was Afraid, Modi Is Not-Foreign Policy Truths!
First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is supposed to have built the foundations for the best foreign policy that India could ever have had. It can be argued that this is untrue. It is part of the propaganda that More...
Modi Haters Will Outrage And Fume Till 2019 No Matter What
India is fast changing. Power Minister Piyush Goyal is making India self-reliant. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu is transforming a monolith. Infrastructure Minister Nitin Gadkari was called Maharashtra’s “Roadkari” More...
Kejriwal and Pappu: A Tale of Two Angry Old Men
In the 1970s an Angry Young Man burst into the Bollywood scene. His name was Amitabh Bachchan and he changed the industry forever. In the 2010s, two angry but not so Young Men burst into the political scene: Congress More...
Islamic State is a Country not a Terrorist Group
The whole world agrees that the Islamic State is the biggest security threat to the world but absolutely no headway is being made over it. America and Russia differ on how to handle it and West Asia is divided. The More...
Why Trump Haters Could Well End Up Making Him President
If you switched on the TV for the first time in ages last week, then you could be forgiven for thinking that America’s Donald Trump had declared World War 3 and millions are going to die soon. Checking CNN in More...
Why Rajiv Gandhi Was The Most Communal PM In India’s History
Some time back a Sikh activist asked that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna should be revoked over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He then released the infamous video where Rajiv intolerantly stated, More...