Many Indian Icons Are Ersatz– Why Do We Tolerate This Travesty?
This essay is prompted by my recent sighting of Sachin Tendulkar at the annual Air Force Day Parade and flypast earlier in the month. The experience was so galling and distasteful that I decided to put my thoughts down for posterity. However, I felt that I should, perforce, go through a much-needed cooling down period before I put pen to paper (or More...
Why did Israel Depart from Secularism? Is There Any Lesson for India?
Whenever any notion of a civilized system becomes the hostage of politically correct narratives, the system is bound to rebel in one way or the other. What happened on July 19th, 2019 in Israel is the living testimony More...
Faith or Fanaticism?
Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious faith or fanaticism? Ram Swarup, Voice of India, 1983 You have probably seen the meme that has been floating around recently in social media, which goes something More...
Letter to Hindus I– Beware of Popery!
My first contribution to Indiafacts deals with the worst, the most persistent and the most cunning institutional enemy of Pagan, that is Dharmic, religions in the entire known history of humankind – Catholic More...
Are sex-selective abortions skewing population: Myth Versus Truth
Background on missing women In March 1992, economist Professor Amartya Sen published a paper titled the “Missing women” (Sen, Missing women, 1992) in which he confidently stated that social factors “must…explain the More...
Hindu civilisation and slavery
Traditionally, neither the Indian nor the Chinese civilisations were particularly well-known for practicing slavery. During the ancient and classical periods, neither India nor China ever practiced chattel slavery, wherein More...
India Needs to Re-assess Donald Trump as a Suitable Partner and Icon
Recent events far from our shores are likely to have an existential and fundamental impact on India’s polity, national security environment, social framework and its ancient culture–cum-patrimony. The epicentre More...
The Truth and the Humbug in Greta Thunberg’s Climate Change Speech
Let me first clear what I am not going to talk about in this article. Yes, Greta Thunberg was creepingly melodramatic. Yes, she read from a script and yes, she is a whimper without a script. Yes, the emotion that More...
Greta Thunberg, Prince Harry, and the Mischief of the Left-leaning MSM
Climate change, the latest fad of the Global Left, is back in the news; thanks to a UN summit on the subject. In that summit, the mainstream media has extended ridiculously disproportionate coverage to a Swedish More...
Caste 102- Our Collective Cultural Caste-ration
“Caste is worse that Jihad!” via Twitter All you ground-warriors of Hinduism, the work you do is essential and difficult. I have the greatest of respect for it. I also understand that you are More...