Letting falsehood spread is no virtue
“Why Indians had to suffer so much for the last 1000 years when they were generally good-natured and did not attack others?” someone asked Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. It was a question which troubled me too. He replied on the lines that Indians had not done their job in analyzing their enemy. Why did Prithviraj Chauhan for example let Mohammad Ghori More...
Equality vs. Nature: How Hierarchy can Help us Save the Planet
In my article on climate change, my focus on hierarchy instead of equality generated a lot of shocked questions and sometimes downright consternation. It was bound to. The fetish of equality has been made such More...
What are we? The people of books, or of The Book!
Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu (1914-1990), the great Telugu literary genius and poet was a polyglot adept in fourteen languages. This versatile man had had no formal academic qualifications. And thereby hangs a More...
Many Indian Icons Are Ersatz– Why Do We Tolerate This Travesty?
This essay is prompted by my recent sighting of Sachin Tendulkar at the annual Air Force Day Parade and flypast earlier in the month. The experience was so galling and distasteful that I decided to put my thoughts More...
Why did Israel Depart from Secularism? Is There Any Lesson for India?
Whenever any notion of a civilized system becomes the hostage of politically correct narratives, the system is bound to rebel in one way or the other. What happened on July 19th, 2019 in Israel is the living testimony More...
Faith or Fanaticism?
Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious faith or fanaticism? Ram Swarup, Voice of India, 1983 You have probably seen the meme that has been floating around recently in social media, which goes something More...
Letter to Hindus I– Beware of Popery!
My first contribution to Indiafacts deals with the worst, the most persistent and the most cunning institutional enemy of Pagan, that is Dharmic, religions in the entire known history of humankind – Catholic More...
India Needs to Re-assess Donald Trump as a Suitable Partner and Icon
Recent events far from our shores are likely to have an existential and fundamental impact on India’s polity, national security environment, social framework and its ancient culture–cum-patrimony. The epicentre More...
The Truth and the Humbug in Greta Thunberg’s Climate Change Speech
Let me first clear what I am not going to talk about in this article. Yes, Greta Thunberg was creepingly melodramatic. Yes, she read from a script and yes, she is a whimper without a script. Yes, the emotion that More...
Greta Thunberg, Prince Harry, and the Mischief of the Left-leaning MSM
Climate change, the latest fad of the Global Left, is back in the news; thanks to a UN summit on the subject. In that summit, the mainstream media has extended ridiculously disproportionate coverage to a Swedish More...