Christians must embrace ghar wapsi
Preamble Leaving home and coming back to it defines human history in a nutshell, if one is alluding to the physical act of going home or away from it for whatever reasons. The going away (or taking one away) from one’s ancestral traditions and culture followed by an explicit expression of repudiation has also become a fixed feature in human history More...
Christophe Jaffrelot allows ideology to defeat objectivity
If one wishes to have a cursory idea about contemporary Indian political life, Religion, Caste & Politics in India (Primus, Delhi 2010) by Christophe Jaffrelot is highly recommended. This book is packed with More...
Landslide dam threatens life of 5,000 people in ancient Buddhist kingdom in India’s rooftop
Lives of at least 5,000 people in at least 40 villages in Zanskar Valley, once an ancient Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, in the eastern part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is in danger after a massive landslide More...
And the Evil lives on…with help from NDTV
The first time I saw the interview here I was aghast. Just reading whose interview it was made me cringe. Why are we giving hardened criminals so much space? Completely unnecessary, needless and worst of all, heartless. More...
An exposé of Mother Teresa’s deceptions and demagoguery
The Indian Christian United Forum (ICUF) has launched a slanderous propaganda in Bangalore as reported by IndiaFacts. It claims that the priest of the Kāḻi temple persecuted Mother Teresa when she founded the More...
IndiaFacts Interview with Hindol Sengupta
IndiaFacts editor Sandeep Balakrishna recently caught up with author and journalist, Hindol Sengupta for a casual chat about his latest Recasting India, which has received critical acclaim. Recasting India has been More...
Sam Harris – Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion A Critique
The Meaning of the Word ‘Spiritual’ Regardless of how well a book is written, and how interesting its content, if it is non-fiction it seems that its value should be judged upon how successfully it achieves More...
Budget 2015-16 is Bad politics
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s second Budget has been widely hailed, especially by industry, as landmark, super-Budget, etc. This is not surprising, given the fact that it is much bolder than the one he presented More...
TOI maligns PM Modi yet again
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Bohra leader Saifuddin branded anti-Semitic by US-based family member
A U.S.-based member of the ruling Dawoodi Bohra family has condemned the self-proclaimed leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, for his alleged obscurantist views, which is out of tune More...