Pope John Paul II: a criminal or a saint?
The Vatican has proclaimed Pope John Paul II a saint. A saint is required to have performed miracles. The French nun Marie Simon Pierre claims that she prayed to John Paul II three months after his death and was cured of Parkinson’s disease. A Costa Rican woman claims that she had been diagnosed with brain aneurysm and that medical doctors had More...
Arundhati Roy’s barbaric brotherhood
Scottish writer Charles Mackay (1814 – 89) may be unknown to the present generation but his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Madness of Crowds, in which he gave vivid accounts of crowd hysteria from More...
Arundhati Roy’s barbaric brotherhood
Scottish writer Charles Mackay (1814 – 89) may be unknown to the present generation but his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Madness of Crowds, in which he gave vivid accounts of crowd hysteria More...
An Open Letter to St. Xavier’s College Students
This is a guest article by Dr. Ritu Mathur, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University Ontario, Canada. The letter published and emailed on the St.Xavier’s College, Mumbai website by Fr. Frazer Masceranhas More...
Vadra Vs Gandhi
What the world is watching and perceiving to be a battle between BJP and Congress on Robert Vadra’s land deal is actually a fight between Vadra and Gandhi i.e. a fight between Priyanka Vadra and Rahul Gandhi. Political More...
Poverty: The new deity
Once upon a time, might was right and justice was the interest of the strong. Whichever brigand became powerful enough to gather a large number of armed men and subdue the local populace claimed to be the king of More...
The Politics of Dalit conversions
About eight years ago, a BBC report barely managed to conceal its glee over a ceremony where “hundreds of Hindu Dalits” converted to Buddhism and/or Christianity. Among other things, the BBC report repeated More...
An Open Letter to Arnab Goswami
I am one who regularly watches Mr. Arnab Goswami’s debates on the Times Now T. V. Channel. In most of the debates anchored by Arnab there is a lopsided emphasis on the fake secularism, mysteriously held in high More...
The Real Truth about the Muzaffarnagar riots: Part 12
This is the continuation of the report on Muzaffarnagar riots accessed by IndiaFacts. Read the previous part here. Appendix 1: Information received under Right to Information (RTI) Act Information was sought More...
Evangelist modus operandi in India: a report
Introduction That under the Congress-led UPA regime in force since 2004, Christian missionary activity has seen a massive spike is stating an obvious truth. The fact that proselytizers of all hues–both Indian More...