Interreligious dialogue: smokescreen or real utility?
Interreligious dialogue is very fashionable these days. But what achievements does it have to show? Interreligious meetings are ten a penny nowadays. It is obviously better for people to spend their time talking to each other than to smash each other’s heads in. But apart from this elementary use, do they have any merits? A few years ago, I attended More...
Narendra Modi for 2014: An analysis
Note: This is a guest article written by IndiaFacts supporter and contributor, Shwetank Bhushan. It is time to take a rational look at the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, coming up in about 100 days. It is indeed More...
Cleansing the media-made distortion of AFSPA
Note: The authors of this article gratefully acknowledge the inputs given by an army officer–who wishes to remain anonymous–involved in insurgency combat in the area. Introduction The summer of 2012–2013 More...
Background Check: Key members of Aam Aadmi Party
The Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which recently formed the Government in Delhi in collaboration with the Congress party made an impressive debut fighting the elections on the plank of eradicating More...
Total US Imperial Dominance
The US emerged as the pre-eminent country once the USSR retreated dramatically in the early 1990s. It clearly became the pre-eminent military power in a unipolar world, with a supposed Chinese challenge remaining More...
Raheel Khursheed’s new job at Twitter raises disturbing questions
Mr. Raheel Khursheed was recently appointed by Twitter India as Head – News, Politics and Government, as his Twitter bio shows. His appointment has raised objections from several quarters and for reasons that More...
Interview with Koenraad Elst on Ayodhya
We step into the 22nd year of the Babri Masjid demolition, an event that changed the course of Indian politics definitively. Yet, for an event of this magnitude, still so fresh in recent memory, we still notice More...
Quick Facts: AAP and Water tanker mafia
News channel NewsX reported how the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that currently heads the Delhi Government busted an “unholy nexus” between the corrupt officials of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and private water More...
Sebastian Seeman’s filthy abuse of Hindu Gods
Tamil cinema actor, director, and founder and head of the political party, Naam Thamizhar Katchi, Sebastian Seeman has heaped derogatory abuse against Hindu gods and Hinduism in general. Here is a summary of Sebastian More...
Meera Sanyal: AAP’s useful idiot?
There is an interesting term that was perhaps coined by Lenin—‘useful idiots.’ It connoted the intellectuals who were seduced by the mendacious claims of communism and who sympathized with the ideology. Unaware More...