Arvind Kejriwal is the real paid media
Nobody could have put this better than Sadanand Dhume (Twitter: @dhume) while summarising the results of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The only reason Dhume says this and not any of our celebrated journalists and media tycoons and their lesser known minions is because Dhume is not a part of the Indian media that created a hero out of Arvind Kejriwal. A More...
A blast from Sagarika Ghose’s past
In her programme titled “Face the Nation” on November 9, 2011, CNN-IBN ran an episode titled “Should spiritual leaders participate in anti-corruption campaign?” anchored by Sagarika Ghose. A prerecorded More...
Manmohan Singh: A spineless perjurer
Centre for National Renaissance president and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy famously compared Manmohan Singh with Bhishma of the Mahabharata. Like Bhishma, who did nothing to check the disrobing More...
Election Commission wantonly flouts rules to stop Narendra Modi
It is a pity that no political analyst, no media mandarin, nor the Bharatiya Janata Party has shown the courage to haul our partisan Election Commission before the Supreme Court on the grounds of deliberate denial More...
Narendra Modi US Visa denial: an untold story
One of the reasons for the resignation of Nancy Powell as the American ambassador to India is said to be that she did not take proactive steps in the recent past for moving towards revoking the cancellation of the More...
Open letter to Amartya Sen from his batchmate
This was sent by IndiaFacts reader Sukumar Mukhopadhyay, a batchmate of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen can hardly keep quiet. He suffers from verbal diarrhea. He has, therefore, started More...
Chennai Bomb Blast and the Islamic Psyche
The identity of those who carried out the Chennai bomb blasts isn’t known yet. However, Col. Hariharan thinks that it is probably the handiwork of an Islamic group orchestrated by Pakistani operatives based More...
Princess Priyanka’s royal rage
When you are Royalty, ordinary rules don’t apply to you. You make the laws that are meant for other people to follow. In India, that applies almost exclusively to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. The staunchest and More...
Narendra Modi breaks the Mandal barrier
This is a guest article by an avid IndiaFacts reader and supporter. Marathon man Narendra Modi began his record breaking campaign for the 2014 general elections across India. This will take Modi’s quest for More...
Why Narendra Modi is compared only to Hitler and not Mao
Introduction The critics of Narendra Modi (including foreign governments, related agencies and NRI academics) have long been accusing him of carrying out a “genocide”, a “pogrom”, and being More...