Charu Gupta’s politics of Smothering
Historian Charu Gupta in her recent op-ed in the 20 December edition of the Indian Express dropped her pearls of wisdom on the issue of re-conversion, or homecoming, a topic which is suddenly the main headlines of almost every newspaper in the country. Her gripe with reconversion is not secret since it is a perfect occasion for every secularist in More...
Jug Suraiya’s Hinduism is all wrong. Here’s why
In the 13 December edition of Times Of India, Jug Suraiya raised concern over what he considers to be a negative transformation of Hinduism courtesy…who else… the Sangh Parivar: The Dharama Jagran Samanvay Vibhag, More...
The Barguments of the conversion intellectuals
With the conversion, re-conversion debate, raging, it is futile to count how many times the “You can only be born a Hindu, you can’t convert” argument has propped up.To say that the thinking of intellectuals More...
Secularism preserves the Christian meme intact
Secularism is also inimical to society since it facilitates the preservation of the Christian doctrine and meme intact by preventing the state from interfering with the religion. Here, it is important to articulate More...
A case against Secularism: A Manifestation of the Christian worldview
Historically, secularism was a much needed tool of rebellion against the stranglehold on power the church exercised over all aspects of life in medieval Europe, and was an inevitable consequence of the Renaissance. More...
Times Of India’s Tainted Reportage
The Times Of India edition today has published a news story in the name of objective reportage regarding the controversial remarks made by BJP leader and Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan More...
Amitav Ghosh’s comparison of Narendra Modi and Erdogan ignores history
In the 30 November edition of Times Of India, novelist Amitav Ghosh penned a piece in which he draws a significant comparison between the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip More...
Aatish Taseer reads Narendra Modi wrong
Aatish Taseer, son of veteran journalist Taveleen Singh and Pakistani politician Salman Taseer (who was assassinated in January 2011), was interviewed in the Open Magazine by its editor, Prasannarajan. I would More...
Wendy Doniger’s ignorance of the Bhagavad Gita
(This was sent in by an IndiaFacts reader, Hari Ravikumar.) Wendy Doniger’s review of Richard H. Davis’s “The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography” (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/war-and-peace-bhagavad-gita/) More...
No such thing as converting out of Hinduism
(This essay was contributed by the Dharma Satya Sabha, a team of Hindu researchers and scholars comprising Saswati Sarkar, Hitarth Maru, Neha Srivastava, Kausik Gangopadhyay, Maidros Feanorite, Vikas Kumar, and More...