BBC hosts sculptor who calls Narendra Modi a mass murderer
On 17 May 2014 on the BBC’s #Newsnight show that discussed Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s stupendous election victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor characterized Narendra Modi thus: India has dreamed itself a dream with a mass murderer as its main character. Anish Kapoor is More...
A blast from Sagarika Ghose’s past
In her programme titled “Face the Nation” on November 9, 2011, CNN-IBN ran an episode titled “Should spiritual leaders participate in anti-corruption campaign?” anchored by Sagarika Ghose. A prerecorded More...
Open letter to Amartya Sen from his batchmate
This was sent by IndiaFacts reader Sukumar Mukhopadhyay, a batchmate of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen can hardly keep quiet. He suffers from verbal diarrhea. He has, therefore, started More...
Why Narendra Modi is compared only to Hitler and not Mao
Introduction The critics of Narendra Modi (including foreign governments, related agencies and NRI academics) have long been accusing him of carrying out a “genocide”, a “pogrom”, and being More...
Pope John Paul II: a criminal or a saint?
The Vatican has proclaimed Pope John Paul II a saint. A saint is required to have performed miracles. The French nun Marie Simon Pierre claims that she prayed to John Paul II three months after his death and was More...
An Open Letter to St. Xavier’s College Students
This is a guest article by Dr. Ritu Mathur, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University Ontario, Canada. The letter published and emailed on the St.Xavier’s College, Mumbai website by Fr. Frazer Masceranhas More...
The Politics of Dalit conversions
About eight years ago, a BBC report barely managed to conceal its glee over a ceremony where “hundreds of Hindu Dalits” converted to Buddhism and/or Christianity. Among other things, the BBC report repeated More...
An Open Letter to Arnab Goswami
I am one who regularly watches Mr. Arnab Goswami’s debates on the Times Now T. V. Channel. In most of the debates anchored by Arnab there is a lopsided emphasis on the fake secularism, mysteriously held in high More...
The Real Truth about the Muzaffarnagar riots: Part 12
This is the continuation of the report on Muzaffarnagar riots accessed by IndiaFacts. Read the previous part here. Appendix 1: Information received under Right to Information (RTI) Act Information was sought More...
Evangelist modus operandi in India: a report
Introduction That under the Congress-led UPA regime in force since 2004, Christian missionary activity has seen a massive spike is stating an obvious truth. The fact that proselytizers of all hues–both Indian More...