My first criticism of Islam
(Rough translation of an article published in Dutch in the digital magazine De Bron, 3 March 2014.) Just a quarter century ago, I published my first article criticizing Islam. It described the history of the death sentence by Ayatollah Khomeini on the writer Salman Rushdie, a case that had erupted half a year earlier in India with a ban on his newly More...
Segregationism of Left-Liberals
The problem with the current crop of intellectual-dilettantes of the Left-Liberal brand – who wax eloquent on the need to uproot the evils of “capitalism” and “fascism” while clutching on to “capitalist” More...
Are Hindus exceptionally dangerous?
Whenever news about India make it to the local Nuremberg newspaper, my mother reads them out to me on phone. Usually, those news portray India in a poor light, like ‘people died from cold on the streets of Delhi’ More...
Everybody denies, nobody refutes Baru
The reactions to Sanjay Baru’s explosive ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ have ranged from déjà vu to self-righteous indignation. The common thread running through all criticisms of Baru is an argumentum More...
Narendra Modi: the great disrupter
Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst’s Decolonising the Hindu Mind is a scholarly survey—and his doctoral thesis—that examined in depth just one question: the causes behind the astonishing rise of the Bharatiya Janata More...
The Real Truth about the Muzaffarnagar riots: Part 11
This is the continuation of the report on Muzaffarnagar riots accessed by IndiaFacts. Read the previous part here. The truth of what happened in the Mirapur Thana jurisdiction in Muzaffarnagar will scare you. More...
Decoding Sonia Gandhi’s Hindusthaniyat and Bharatiyata
The Queen of the crumbling palace of cards came on TV a couple of days ago and waxed eloquent for all of three minutes mouthing the same Nehruvian platitudes that over six decades have contributed the comprehensive More...
Modi Wave Turns Pro-establishment Intellectuals Nervous
If the high voter turnout in the third and substantial phase of 2014 Lok Sabha elections is anything to go by, it reveals the effect of Sri Narendra Modi’s appeal to different sections of society in terms of mobilizing More...
The real truth about the Muzaffarnagar riots: Part 10
This is the continuation of the report on Muzaffarnagar riots accessed by IndiaFacts. Read the previous part here. This is an interview that the Aaj Tak team had with the SDM and the CO at Muzaffarnagar. Aaj More...
Kargil Facts for Azam Khan
On 7 April 2014, Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Minority Affairs Minister Mohammad Azam Khan in a speech asserted thus: Those who fought for victory in Kargil were not Hindu soldiers. In fact, the ones More...