Haider: Hamlet without the prince
Jesus cautioned the faithful about the menace of charlatans, saying “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” A couple of millennia down the line, the danger has magnified a million times, as it is not only the apostles of evil who deceive and delude people but also the intellectuals More...
A Manifesto Against Freethoughts’ Manifesto
On 7 October, the well-known blog ‘freethoughtblogs.com’ published what they called a “Manifesto for Secularism.” Let us examine in some depth, the key points of this so-called manifesto: Our era is marked More...
Debunking the myth of Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa
(This piece was sent by IndiaFacts supporter and contributor, Shwetank Bhushan Singh.) Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world’s media, Mother Teresa was born in what More...
Jagdish Bhagwati is seriously wrong
I fully agree with Professor Jagdish Bhawati’s approach with respect to economic policies – creating an environment for growth is a necessary condition to make resources available for social initiatives. However, More...
The Nobel Peace Prize: was there more than meets the eye to Kailash Satyarthi’s selection?
Let me be quite up-front about a few things. One, I confess I had only vaguely heard about Kailash Satyarthi before the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 came looking for him. Two, I am as delighted as anyone else that global More...