Unmasking the Aam Aadmi Party
Note: This piece was first published at the Uncivil Society Reunion blog and is now being reproduced on IndiaFacts with permission from noted blogger Barbar Indian. Some minor edits have been made with regard to language and formatting. The cult we today call AAP entered politics riding a tsunami wave of discontent against the UPA Government, particularly More...
World Vision: Karnataka Govt school fails in due diligence
Incident The Karnataka Government-run Higher Primary School at Bangarappa Layout, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore, in collaboration with World Vision, issued certificates to its students in August 2013 confirming More...
Tehelka is the UPA of media
The relationship between Tehelka and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was more than symbiotic. Of course, both benefited each other; both are Left-leaning; but the hallmark and the conspicuous More...
The fraudulent appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar’s legacy
58 years ago, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar one of the most influential political thinkers of modern India left his mortal body and attained Mahaparinirvana. The country remembers gratefully, Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution More...
The Ayodhya movement: a trip down memory lane
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India’s eminent historians, protested against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that the Babar mosque in Ayodhya had been built in forcible replacement More...
Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
A G Noorani calls Sardar Patel a Communalist
Assertion: The latest cover story of Frontline is a lengthy essay by A.G. Noorani that purports to prove that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a communalist based on a “documented record.” As part of More...
Media Shame: Suppression of KFD goons’ brutal attack on journalist for helping poor Muslim woman
Savagery in Mangalore In a horrific episode that should shock and shame all of us, Karavali Ale (a Mangalore-based Kannada newspaper) journalist V.T. Prasad was savagely attacked by about 35 members of the Karnataka More...
Huffington Post has lost credibility
Assertion: On 2 December 2013, online news portal Huffington Post carried a story on the world’s richest leaders/politicians, which listed the names of the most wealthy leaders in the world. Indian National More...
Delhi Polls: Dr Harsh Vardhan set to script a BJP win
Note: This is a guest post from IndiaFacts reader and admirer, Shwetank Bhushan. Among the 5 states facing state legislative elections, the story in Delhi looks the most interesting. The fun started the day More...