The fraudulent appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar’s legacy
58 years ago, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar one of the most influential political thinkers of modern India left his mortal body and attained Mahaparinirvana. The country remembers gratefully, Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution for a host of reasons, the most important of which are his scholarly contributions to the framing of the country’s Constitution as the More...
The Ayodhya movement: a trip down memory lane
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India’s eminent historians, protested against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that the Babar mosque in Ayodhya had been built in forcible replacement More...
Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
Media Shame: Suppression of KFD goons’ brutal attack on journalist for helping poor Muslim woman
Savagery in Mangalore In a horrific episode that should shock and shame all of us, Karavali Ale (a Mangalore-based Kannada newspaper) journalist V.T. Prasad was savagely attacked by about 35 members of the Karnataka More...
If you ain’t a Left-libber, you ain’t human
Poet and secularist par excellence Javed Akhtar was hauled over the coals by Twitterati for his comment on former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal which was seen as supporting the beleaguered editor. But More...
Legal Opinion: Can Tejpal seek transfer of investigation?
Tarun Tejpal’s latest ploy of blaming the BJP for implicating him in the rape case is now the news doing the rounds. That Tejpal, on that ground, has sought the transfer of the investigation from the Goa police More...
AAP Slanders Narendra Modi
It is a given that the pre-poll pitch is raised to a fever by all contestants as the date gets nearer and nearer. And so it is with the Delhi, which goes to the polls on 4 December 2014. Hitherto, Delhi has witnessed More...
Secular Hypocrisy: From Shah Bano to Tarun Tejpal
While proclaiming to uphold liberal values like women’s rights, secular intellectuals and the Congress become tongue-tied and even collaborators when unspeakable outrages are committed against women by those considered More...
Sexual Assault in Indian Media: A Victim Speaks Out
IndiaFacts columnist, Dr. Shobha Srivastava in her analysis of the Tarun Tejpal sexual assault episode, mentioned similar cases of harassment of women in the Indian media. One of these was the tragic case of a More...
Sanctimony, Hubris and Downfall
Tehelka magazine editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boss Arvind Kejriwal were the self-appointed guardians of morality. In the reckoning of their supporters, they were the conscience of the More...