A Confused Journo’s Posthumous Interviews: (1) The Politician
[contextly_sidebar id=”9Ft6fQQ7M0Vf77lGpIr5m42xa7iRaWXN”] IndiaFacts regrets to announce the tragic death of Mr. Akulita Sandeha, a young and promising journalist whose body was found three days ago on a suburban railway track near Bandra, Mumbai. He was carrying a suicide note which is currently being studied by the police. As it happens, More...
Why is the Media Silent on Pachauri?
In the din of award waapsi and intolerance debates, a young girl who was fighting a case of sexual harassment against a well-known figure quit her job. The well-known person is none other than Rajendra Pachauri– More...
Aurangzeb: A Life of Tolerance
I am no scholar of history but I know my Indian history fairly well. Given the currently prevailing atmosphere of intolerance in India, this would be a good time to set the record straight by remembering and recalling More...
Decoding the Habits of the One-Eyed Intellectual
If India were an animal farm, it has been encroached by a class of one-eyed animals, who are better educated and have given themselves awards, live in comfortable homes, drink bottled water, and infest our television More...
Something Went Wrong with You? Just blame Modi
Here’s how to do it. In the past if any Nehru-Gandhi dynast or any of his or her confidantes did something dastardly, then the entire #AdarshLiberal crowd would simply look the other way as they are trained to. More...
Revisiting Slumdog Millionaire
The output of the Mumbai film industry largely consists of superficial plots with light-hearted music and little contact with pressing social and political realities. By contrast, Danny Boyle’s movie Slumdog More...
The World of Wendy Doniger’s Translations
“Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all.” – Wendy Doniger, When the Lingam More...
How California Gurudwaras have Cemented Hindu-Sikh Divide Created by the British
During a recent visit to California I visited Gurudwaras at Yuba City, Freemont and San Jose. The Yuba City Gurudwara was made in 1969, Freemont in 1978 and San Jose renovated in 2004. The first two are relatively More...
Award Wapasi Shame: Know the Literary Mafias
What is the common between dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, self-styled activist Teesta Setalvad and the writers who have relinquished Sahitya Akademi Awards or quit the Akademi? They all indulged in a well-orchestrated More...
Dynasty Propaganda and Freedom Struggle Heros
Scriptwriters of traditional Congress propaganda would have us believe that M.K. Gandhi was the “Universally revered Bapu” (Father of the Nation) and J.L. Nehru its lovable and benevolent “Chacha” (Uncle), More...