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 like to offer my comments to Aatish Taseer’s answer to the last question in the interview: Q. Of India, do you wish the way thing were, politically, More...
World Hindu Conference 2014: A monumental achievement and a civilizational awakening
The World Hindu Conference (WHC) was held from 21-23 Novemeber at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi, Bharata. It was a great achievement indeed for Swami Vigyananand of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to gather 1800 delegates More...
Misrepresentation and Education do not go together
This rejoinder was sent to IndiaFacts by Sri Nachiketa Tiwari, Co-ordinator of the Hindu Economic Conference in the recently concluded World Hindu Conference, 2014. This is a rejoinder to the article “Why do Hindus More...
Lachit Borphukan must become a household name
The famed historian and scholar Sitaram Goel once stated: Hindu Dharmashãstras have enjoined upon every Hindu to repay according to his or her capacity the rishi-riNa, that is, the debt we owe to our seers and 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...