Facts of Gujarat Riots Cases
The Gujarat sessions court judgement of 26 December 2013 in many ways has pulled the curtains down one of the most motivated witch hunts against one man: the three term Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Equally, the Gujarat 2002 riots cases have prolonged for about the same duration. In the wake of the current judgement, IndiaFacts presents More...
Congress Crimes 2: Nehru dynasty and National Suicide
The kindest description of Jawaharlal Nehru’s politics is that he was ambitious, but also a dupe. His thinking was imbued with all the half-baked prejudices of an interwar Europe in disarray and wracked by self-doubt, More...
Narendra Modi didn’t visit riot victims for 35 days
Assertion: National spokesperson of the Congress party Sanjay Jha in a Tweet on 2 November 2013 claimed as follows: . Facts Communal riots erupted in Gujarat after 59 innocent Kar Sevaks were burnt alive in the More...
The Story Behind Nehru & Indira Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader, Ashok (Twitter handle: @nationalizer). It all started with a curiosity. I was going through the list of Bharat Ratna awardees which contains three of the six Nehru-Gandhi More...
ANNOUNCEMENT: DNA’s Mahafreed Irani sends notice to IndiaFacts
In response to the IndiaFacts article entitled DNA Mahafreed’s misleading reportage, which was published on 23 December 2013, Mahafreed Irani sent an email notice in which she indicated that she is considering More...
NCERT textbook falsifies Gujarat riot numbers
Instance The NCERT Class XI textbook entitled Political Theory in a chapter on Secularism (Chapter 8, page 112), makes the following statement with respect to the Gujarat riots (emphasis added): Nearly two thousand More...
The political economy of underpaid wages
Social media commentators in the US, Europe and including a shocking number of Anglicised Indians, are spewing racist venom against Devyani Khobragade for allegedly exploiting her maid. It turns out that Devyani More...
Conversion is extortion
Imagine you’re poor and living in a rural area. Your child gets sick. You manage to transport her to a hospital or clinic. To your relief, the condition is treatable. But the cost of treatment is not just More...
Shafting India at will
There are grounds for suspecting that the arrest, humiliation and assault against Devyani Khobragade may not have been about an underpaid maid and technical violation in a visa application. Something is amiss, but More...
Response to Economist’s article on Narendra Modi
In its 14 December 2013 article on Narendra Modi, the Economist makes several assertions about the Gujarat riots of 2002. Most of these assertions are focussed on how Narendra Modi did nothing to prevent and/or More...