Why FTII Agitators should be Prosecuted
Pune’s Film & Television Institute of India is once again in the limelight—this time for the supposedly draconian crackdown on the striking students in a midnight swoop. There is a sense of déjà vu among the Left-libbers and arty folks—the bearded, spectacled, kurta-wearing, phony revolutionaries. The daarhi-chashma-kurta types. All More...
Not Gandhi but Japan Kicked out Britain from India
Mass desertions of loyal Indian soldiers to the Japanese-trained INA precipitated Britain’s withdrawal from India. On 15 November 1941, less than a month before Pearl Harbour, the Japanese leadership approved More...
Parliament Logjam: Two Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Ultimately, it’s a revelation of the citizen’s helplessness as well as a sign of the hopeless state of our democracy. That’s what it is—the PIL filed by an NGO (Foundation for Restoration of National Values) More...
I am a Kaffir and I need a Hug
In the afternoon of 6 August, a blindfolded Muslim man named Mazim Mullah stood in a Mumbai street with his hands stretched open and a message that urged passersby to hug him: “I’m a Muslim and I trust More...
Anxiety in the Western Academia’s Ivory Tower
“Sling mud; even if the mud does not stick, the stain will stay for long.” asatyam api dur-vachanam chiram tishthati = Vilification, even if groundless, lasts long. These are but some of the maxims being deployed More...
Narendra Modi Shifts Momentum in Bihar: Jitters in Janata Parivar
In continuation of the IndiaFacts series on the upcoming Bihar assembly election, we can now examine the battle that increasingly looks fierce and promising. The consensus of most political observers is that it More...
Ancient Indian Tradition of Agriculture and Food Sharing
The undoubted and perhaps unintended – or unforeseen – ill-effects associated with the conventional green revolution package of practices has compelled both farmers and governments to look more favourably at More...
Book Review: The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen
This book review is jointly authored by Saradindu Mukherji and Shoumendu Mukherji. The Nobel laureate in economics makes tremendous use of history, contemporary politics and value systems, with a generous mixing More...
Bitter Truths, Difficult Questions
Morgan Freeman’s character in Now You See Me (2013) tells Mark Ruffalo’s character, “When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere More...
Journalism of Courage or Journalism of Communalism?
This was sent in by IndiaFacts reader, Newspaper Reader who can be followed on Twitter @readernewspaper. The Indian Express published a report titled ‘Why kin of Muslim half of Gujarat’s martyr duo turned More...