William Dalrymple’s incurable colonial hangover
Behold! The direct descendant of Major General Sir John Dalrymple of North Berwick, 5th Baronet, a great soldier known for his cruelties in Madras Presidency, and the direct descendant of Sir John Warrender Dalrymple of North Berwick, 7th Baronet, the judge in a court in Bengal known for his focus on profits, and the son of Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian More...
Muslim Hooliganism in Chennai
This is a ground report from IndiaFacts readers in Chennai about a shocking case of Muslim hooliganism in Chennai. On 24 February, when a woman belonging to the Marwari community was returning home after work More...
Open Letter to Salman Khurshid
Note: IndiaFacts reader Mr. Ram Kumar Ohri, a retired IPS officer has sent in an open letter to IndiaFacts. The letter, published without making any edits tells a squalid story of how poor children have been, More...
More legal troubles ahead for Doniger & Penguin?
I am a U.S. academic, now retired, with over twenty years at several universities. I have prepared this document at the suggestion of friends and colleagues outraged by the theme, content and attitude of Wendy Doniger, More...
Dear Sagarika Ghose: Why not rewrite the Bible?
In a recent blog, the leftist Indian journalist Sagarika Ghose traces the origin of the caste system to a verse in the Puruṣa Sūkta and makes an appeal to publicly re-write the hymn, which she claims is fundamentally More...
What NDTV conceals
In its news report on 16 January 2014, media outlet NDTV claimed the following: A Senior Income Tax Commissioner – Sanjay Srivastava – has made history as the first income tax commissioner to be sentenced More...
On Wendy Doniger’s alternative history
Note: This is a reprint of Aseem Shukla’s 2010 essay. Also appended is the exchange he had with Wendy Doniger. History empowers and history emasculates. History, like art, is beautiful or odious to the beholder. More...
Wendy Doniger’s Hindus
Note: This is a republication of a 2010 essay is authored by Shyam N. Shukla. Dr. Wendy Doniger has impressive credentials with two doctorates, in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, from Harvard and Oxford universities. More...
Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: Part 3
Read parts 1 and 2. We Hindus In the light of foregoing, it is incumbent upon contemporary Hindus and Hindu scholars to regain the initiative and using indigenous historiography and cognitive categories and to institute More...
Wendy Doniger’s fake victimhood
The withdrawal of a book by Penguin Books has made the author of the book feel bitter and portray herself as a victim. This strange attempt at self-martyrdom does not hold any water and is a lame effort on her part More...