Modi, Madison and Media
Amid the mix of the cynical, the patronizing, the downright racist and the ebullient reporting from Madison Square Garden it is easy to miss the forest for the trees. Beyond the song, dance, protests and journalist-added drama was a play of strategies and powers. Let us start with the one most in-the-face at the event. The evident over-the-top love More...
The Economist needs to be renamed “The Racist”
On 29 September, the famed The Economist published a piece, which established what millions of Indians constantly suspected: it was racist. During the 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign, the Economist had taken the More...
Hartosh Singh Bal’s hatred for Indian national interest
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi often remarks jokingly, that many journalists and media companies would have to shut their shops if they don’t carry on their hate campaign against him. The now-editor of More...
Karan Thapar ‘s Coke-crazed advice to Narendra Modi
On 27 September, eminent journalist and anchor Karan Thapar penned an op-ed in the Hindustan Times where he slyly proclaimed to offer a ‘bit of gratuitous but well-meant advice’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi More...
Dear Mr Khaliq, stop trying to scare us to win votes
Dear Mr Khaliq, As a senior journalist, I usually keep away from responding directly to the essays or articles written by politicians because they are often just that — political and biased. However, as a More...
A Lullaby to Managalyan
After a 10-month-long journey and covering 680 million kilometers, India’s first interplanetary spacecraft created history by entering the Martian orbit. Much has been made of the cost-effective nature of Mangalyan, More...
Lessons for Comrade Yechury
An op-ed penned by CPM’s Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury which appeared in the Hindustan Times on September 23 2014 echoes the same allegation mentioned in a previous report also from the Hindustan Times– that More...
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay: Tribute to a gentle giant
This article was contributed by IndiaFacts supporter, reader, and well-wisher, Shwetank Bhushan. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay was a profound Indian philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist and an More...
Ahmed Hassan Imran poses a threat to national security
On 19 January 2014, Ahmed Hassan Imran was nominated to the Upper House of the Parliament by Trinamul Congress (TMC). This is the same Imran who had an important role to play in the communal carnage that plagued More...
The definitive Ayodhya chronicle
There are very few publications giving a factual account of historical facts underlying the Ayodhya controversy. Yet this controversy has played a decisive role in recent Indian politics, giving the BJP the electoral More...