Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war of Gregory in the region of Armenia, which had a Hindu colony and rulers of Hindu descent in the early part of the 300s of the Common Era. However, More...
Chetan Bhagat as a Symbol of Deracination
I have never read any book by Chetan Bhagat. When a friend asked me what I think of him, my response was factual – that I don’t think of him. It does not mean I dislike him or his books, it is just that he More...
Examining the Quran
This is the second part of the IndiaFacts series analysing the Quran through a Dharmic perspective. Continuing from the introductory essay in this series, we can now begin to examine the key verses of the Quran. Bismi More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...
Amnesty International’s Christine Mehta: Proud to break the law
Broke the law, and proud of it. That seems to be the attitude of Christine Mehta, an employee of Amnesty International who as an American citizen applied and received the status of an OCI. In an article in the Hindu More...
Questions for Amnesty International’s Christine Mehta
In an article in the Hindu dated 2 July 2015, a certain Christine Mehta, an employee of Amnesty International and an American citizen, has interesting things to say. She describes the situation in which her OCI More...
The caste system is a colonial idea
It was primarily under colonial Christian rule that the caste system as we know it today was defined, shaped and a narrative built around it. It’s time for India to take back the caste narrative in its own hands. More...
The BBC and its chums stress out over Yoga
One just can’t make this up! If money–grubbing rip-off merchants like the trendy lowlives in Europe and the USA who make a fortune out of Yoga or even a cool hippie or Hilary Clinton were to run a Yoga More...
Debunking The USCIRF 2015 Annual Report
The USCIRF report on India is very ill- informed and worst of all, biased. Some of the allegations levelled against India to support its claim of deterioration in freedom of religion is- 1) Crackdown on Christian More...
NCERT Class XII Textbook: A Case Study of Progressive History Writing
Of late, a large section of the Indian media has been going out of the way to flaunt their latest obsession with what normal people would consider non-issues. These large sections of the media seek to project More...