Demonetization-The Major Reset In India
Through notification on November 8th, 2016, all currency notes of the denomination of INR 500 (approx USD7) and INR 1,000 (approx USD15) have been demonetized by Central Government of India. Those currency notes ceased to be considered as legal tender after midnight on the day of the announcement. The move has been aimed to curb black money (illegal More...
Citizen Responsibility: Invoking the Sacred
My fellow Indians, Unless you are living on another planet you have all probably heard, read, watched most of the news and analyses there is about the recent bold step introduced by the Government of India led by More...
Meaning of India in Words of Raja Rao: Brief Life Sketch of a Novelist as Sadhaka
On the occasion of 108th anniversary of Raja Rao, one of India’s most illustrious English language writer, IndiaFacts presents “Meaning of India” in his words, written by his wife Susan Raja Rao. Raja More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives – Part II
[contextly_sidebar id=”pcsGYY4n1eiDOKiDgjpmeJdoT1KUTsE1″] While Pakistan struggles towards its goal of achieving a homogenous monoculture with Islamism at its core, India has struggled equally to define More...
Worship and the Holy Dogs of modernity
One of the biggest strikes of Christianity and Islam against pagan and dharmic traditions is that of “blasphemy” or “shirk.” No bigger shirk than having companions for Allah or that of “idol worship”—that More...
Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India on 26 October 1947, Period.
Quite often when a product has shortcomings, its manufacturer resorts to deceptive marketing. It creates a smoke screen over the product’s limitations and marketing managers take it further by confusing and corrupting More...
Atrocity Literature: A Western Recipe to dismantle India and Hinduism
In 1927, Katherine Mayo wrote a viciously anti-India and anti-Hindu book “Mother India”, which portrayed Hindu society as uncivilized, barbaric and oppressive towards women and children by cherry picking incidents More...
Academic Hinduphobia Going Mainstream
Introduction Last weekend while firming our plans for Inferno, we chanced upon an article. We could not help reading it with uninterrupted amusement, for, right from the click-bait headline to the nearly 900 More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives-1
Pakistan and India fought the first Kashmir war between October 1947 and December 1948. At the time of independence, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was independently ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh, of the More...
Pagan and Monotheistic Violence
[contextly_sidebar id=”BSeG8JZLATQzdDJEHhudgYVnspxd0Vmz”] This essay is a meditation on the second chapter of Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods, titled ‘Seth the Iconoclast: Polytheism and the Language More...