Rahul Kanwal: Majority in favour of Kejriwal dharna
Assertion On 20 January 2014, Aaj Tak and Headlines Today editor Rahul Kanwal made the following claim on Twitter: Facts On 20 January 2014, Aaj Tak conducted a poll with the following question (translated from Hindi below): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is sitting on an agitation against the central Government. Do you think he is doing More...
Interreligious dialogue: smokescreen or real utility?
Interreligious dialogue is very fashionable these days. But what achievements does it have to show? Interreligious meetings are ten a penny nowadays. It is obviously better for people to spend their time talking More...
Narendra Modi for 2014: An analysis
Note: This is a guest article written by IndiaFacts supporter and contributor, Shwetank Bhushan. It is time to take a rational look at the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, coming up in about 100 days. It is indeed More...
Total US Imperial Dominance
The US emerged as the pre-eminent country once the USSR retreated dramatically in the early 1990s. It clearly became the pre-eminent military power in a unipolar world, with a supposed Chinese challenge remaining More...
Interview with Koenraad Elst on Ayodhya
We step into the 22nd year of the Babri Masjid demolition, an event that changed the course of Indian politics definitively. Yet, for an event of this magnitude, still so fresh in recent memory, we still notice More...
Quick Facts: AAP and Water tanker mafia
News channel NewsX reported how the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that currently heads the Delhi Government busted an “unholy nexus” between the corrupt officials of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and private water More...
Meera Sanyal: AAP’s useful idiot?
There is an interesting term that was perhaps coined by Lenin—‘useful idiots.’ It connoted the intellectuals who were seduced by the mendacious claims of communism and who sympathized with the ideology. Unaware More...
Why is Sonia soft on Islamic terror: Part 2
Read Part 1 here. Sonia Gandhi’s softness towards Islamic Fundamentalists runs the risk of making India an attractive destination for the Jihadis. As noted in the previous part, Sonia Gandhi, though not officially More...
Why is Sonia soft on Islamic terror: Part 1
India, along with Pakistan, is one of the key battlegrounds in the struggle against Islamist terror for the future of civilization. The largest democracy in the world, India has suffered its own severe Jihadist More...
The Arthashastra and the welfare state
As a new Gregorian year begins, it is appropriate to revisit the concept of a welfare state in the Sanskrit canon. The state had its obligations to the broader population. The public welfare was the measure by which More...