India’s Daughter: A Reader’s Response
To The Editor IndiaFacts Dear Sir I am attaching a letter on the aforesaid subject matter of your article titled India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism. If possible, please publish the same in your web-site for wider dissemination. With best wishes, N Mohan Dear Sir Westerners are the greatest Rapists ———————————————————————— A More...
India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism
The BBC documentary India’s Daughter announces that every 20 minutes a woman is raped in India. It characterizes Indian society as inherently patriarchal and misogynistic. We shouldn’t tolerate a single incident More...
This Women’s Day a big shout out to the stay-at-home mom
It’s a Sunday and she’s got up maybe a little later than usual but not late enough to forget cuddling her grand kids and playing with them in the bed. She makes tea for everyone, cooks breakfast, chats with More...
#IndiasDaughter: Dear FOE advocates, this too revolts us
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Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha’s Makers of Modern India
In post-Independent India, conformism to the received wisdom is the key to “glory” in social sciences/historical studies, and deviation leads to guillotine. Ramachandra Guha is fully conscious of this More...
Exploring the history of Hindu festivals: the ancient strands of Holākā
In Hindu tradition there is a clear demarcation of at least three distinct classes of ritual observances: 1) The most conservative of these are the śrauta rituals that deviate little from their Vedic prototype More...
Looming Spectre of Anti-Hindu Political Front: Now It is Hindus Versus All Others
India won freedom in 1947 after passing through a blood bath of unimagineable proportions. At that time it was believed that in the coming decades the Hindus will be able to live peaceably in their ancient homeland. More...
Christians must embrace ghar wapsi
Preamble Leaving home and coming back to it defines human history in a nutshell, if one is alluding to the physical act of going home or away from it for whatever reasons. The going away (or taking one away) from More...
Landslide dam threatens life of 5,000 people in ancient Buddhist kingdom in India’s rooftop
Lives of at least 5,000 people in at least 40 villages in Zanskar Valley, once an ancient Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, in the eastern part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is in danger after a massive landslide More...
IndiaFacts Interview with Hindol Sengupta
IndiaFacts editor Sandeep Balakrishna recently caught up with author and journalist, Hindol Sengupta for a casual chat about his latest Recasting India, which has received critical acclaim. Recasting India has been More...