Sam Harris – Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion A Critique
The Meaning of the Word ‘Spiritual’ Regardless of how well a book is written, and how interesting its content, if it is non-fiction it seems that its value should be judged upon how successfully it achieves its stated objective. As far as potential readers are concerned, the objective is traditionally determined from a book’s title. And, in this More...
Budget 2015-16 is Bad politics
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s second Budget has been widely hailed, especially by industry, as landmark, super-Budget, etc. This is not surprising, given the fact that it is much bolder than the one he presented More...
TOI maligns PM Modi yet again
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Bohra leader Saifuddin branded anti-Semitic by US-based family member
A U.S.-based member of the ruling Dawoodi Bohra family has condemned the self-proclaimed leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, for his alleged obscurantist views, which is out of tune More...
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Jayastute Jayastute
Murderer, quarrelsome, pity hunter, these are some of the labels many scholars have conferred on noteworthy writer, thinker, and freedom fighter, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Of course they are countered with statements More...
Secular defence of Mother Teresa
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Tirukethiswaram and the Silk Road of the Sea
The history of the Sri Lankan temple of Tirukethiswaram should be viewed in the context of ancient navigational routes. Tirukethiswaram was located in Mantai, a center of sea-borne commercial links between China More...
Re-establishing Shastras in Indian Education
The Conflict between European and Indic Vidyaas There is an un-subsiding conflict between traditional and modern genres of knowledge. The latter came to India from Europe a century and half ago but have now become More...
Petition to PM Narendra Modi to Ban Foreign Funding of NGOs
Following the precedent of Manushi’s petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban foreign funding to NGOs in India, IndiaFacts has opened up this petition to the public. The purpose and goal of this petition More...
Hindus in USA join in honoring MatruBhumi
The Washington DC-based Hindu American Foundation in partnership with the Bhumi Project, based in Oxford University, are hosting The Hindu Environment Week (HEW), an international event to honor Matru Bhumi or More...