Journalism of Courage or Journalism of Communalism?
This was sent in by IndiaFacts reader, Newspaper Reader who can be followed on Twitter @readernewspaper. The Indian Express published a report titled ‘Why kin of Muslim half of Gujarat’s martyr duo turned Hindu‘ on 17 July 2015. The headline reveals that the report’s focus is not on the heroism of the “Gujarat’s martyr duo” More...
Lessons from the Rajiv Malhotra Affair
Now that everybody has had his say on the Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism affair, we can better discern the larger context that explains the different forces at work here. Plagiarism The trigger was the discovery that More...
Christian Propagandists Hurl Scurrilious Allegations against Rajiv Malhotra
Note: To those of you that are aware of the background of our relationship with Rajiv Malhotra, we would like to reiterate our commitment to protecting our Dharma from all forms of attacks and hence this piece finds More...
Progressive Distortions in NCERT Class 12 Textbook
In my previous essay, I had examined and pointed out gross distortions in the chapter titled Theme Thirteen: ‘Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement,’ which is part of the Class XII NCERT history textbook. More...
Sonia Falerio’s Sleight of Hand in the New York Times
In June this year, the New York Times carried an opinion piece by Sonia Faleiro titled ‘Saving the Cows, Starving the Children‘. As is typical of op-eds and opinions in the NYT or The Guardian about India More...
Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys Target Rajiv Malhotra
Note: To those of you that are aware of the background of our relationship with Rajiv Malhotra, we would like to reiterate our commitment to protecting our Dharma from all forms of attacks and hence this piece finds More...
Yakub Memon: What the Media Suppresses
On 15 July 2015, across many media channels in India, we saw something that was never seen before, but which is sure to become more frequent and shriller with each passing year now: that was the reaction of Muslim More...
Media Canards of Military Coup
John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, respectfully referred to as the ‘Dean of His Profession’, said during his farewell speech in 1953, “There is no such thing, at this date of More...
Islamophobia: Political Islam’s Latest Incarnation Debilitates Public Discourse
Political Islam began almost from the moment Islam was born. In fact, if we notice the core doctrines of Islam, it is doubtless that politics—rather, political imperialism—and Islam are inseparable. From brutal More...
What Ails Amartya Sen?
The former head of the Nalanda University, Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review makes wild and sweeping allegations against the Narendra Modi Government even as he conceals his own record of not showing accounts More...