Narendra Modi: the great disrupter
Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst’s Decolonising the Hindu Mind is a scholarly survey—and his doctoral thesis—that examined in depth just one question: the causes behind the astonishing rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party from just two seats in 1984 to 182 in 1998. Among other things, the book also takes a severely critical look at the BJP’s failures. More...
Decoding Sonia Gandhi’s Hindusthaniyat and Bharatiyata
The Queen of the crumbling palace of cards came on TV a couple of days ago and waxed eloquent for all of three minutes mouthing the same Nehruvian platitudes that over six decades have contributed the comprehensive More...
Modi Wave Turns Pro-establishment Intellectuals Nervous
If the high voter turnout in the third and substantial phase of 2014 Lok Sabha elections is anything to go by, it reveals the effect of Sri Narendra Modi’s appeal to different sections of society in terms of mobilizing More...
Is Ashutosh Varshney communal?
Assertion Writing in a column in the Indian Express on 14 April 2014, Brown University Professor Ashutosh Varshney claims that If Muslims vote en bloc, there is still a chance that they can frustrate Modi’s More...
Officer of Army Chief’s regiment let off in misappropriation case
A Sikh Light Infantry Colonel posted in RR faced a Court of Inquiry and was found guilty of misappropriation of regimental funds. But the Inquiry Board gets a call allegedly, asking them to acquit the officer with More...
Indian Secularism: a multi-fact sheet
The polls for the 16th Lok Sabha are underway what with record polling rates in every constituency. Following its commitment to fostering a clean public discourse, IndiaFacts presents the following facts about More...
Narendra Modi: Barbarian at the gate?
Narendra Modi wants a complete breach from the imperatives of Nehruvian socialism. This is quite evident. However, it is a cause of a great deal of consternation not only in the grand old party but also among sundry More...
DESI SECULARISTS FOREVER SIPPING FROM TOXIC GOBLETS
As the 2014 elections get under way, marking one of the most critical events in the life of our young Republic (also one of the world’s oldest civilisations), it’s time to take stock of how some of our intellectuals More...
Technology as Homonym in Manifesto
In linguistics, a homonym is a set of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. In Indian politics, Technology spawns homonym. To Congress led UPA Technology means ‘Corruption’. More...
How does it feel to be burnt alive?
How does it feel to be burnt alive? I don’t know. But my guess is that first the skin will burn, followed by the muscles and then the bones. Surely, no one will survive by the time the bones start burning. More...