Synopsis: Are Indian Tribals Hindus?
The legal position on this question is very clear. According to the Constitution of India, laws framed for Hindus apply to the following three categories of people: (a) To any person who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms and developments, including a Virashaiva, a Lingyat or a follower of the Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj, (b) To any person More...
Event: Book launch of Prof Vamsee Juluri
Jijnasa, an initiative under the aegis of Centre for Educational and Social Studies (CESS) has organized the launch of Prof Vamsee Krishna Juluri‘s book, Rearming Hinduism – Nature, Hinduphobia and More...
It’s all your fault Mr. Narendra Modi
Dear Sri Narendra Modi, We, the great middle class of this country voted for you. Overwhelmingly voted for you. Gave your party its biggest ever mandate. We trusted you with our destiny. We also laboured hard to More...
The Myth of Islamic Science
In this provocative essay, Waseem Altaf, the author argues that the notion of a golden age of Islamic learning is a myth created to counter the current sorry state of intellectual life in the Islamic world. Introduced More...
Dealing with the English Media
It is the considered opinion of those to the right of centre (RofC) – the full spectrum from just to the right to what is called the looney fringe – that the mainstream media, particularly the English variety More...
Nehru and the China-Tibet blunder
This is the sixth part of the IndiaFacts series on distortions of Indian history. In the year 1950, two momentous events shook Asia and the world. One was the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and the other, the Chinese More...
Swachch Bharat: 10K in pocket & willpower, resolute youngsters clean up Prabhu Ghat
Celebrities like Shobha De made a mockery of Swachch Bharat when they posed with brooms because it was a good occasion for a photo-op. Some like Priyanka Chopra made it count, but being an actor she has the wherewithal More...
Is Freedom of Expression for Whites only?
Recent events in India, Harvard and now Oxford make it clear that academic freedom, and freedom of expression in general is a white privilege that may be denied on a whim to non-whites. There was hue and More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...
Communist treachery and the Nehru Dynasty
This is the fifth part of the IndiaFacts series on distortions of Indian History. [contextly_sidebar id=”zqMS9qvCVL0HZRSqDZrfdJUQga8Q0iwB”] Another source of distortion of this period of history is rooted More...