Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Jayastute Jayastute
Murderer, quarrelsome, pity hunter, these are some of the labels many scholars have conferred on noteworthy writer, thinker, and freedom fighter, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Of course they are countered with statements made by those who hail him as Valiant or Veer Savarkar. But both sides have failed to clasp a key point: not everything is black or white; More...
Secular defence of Mother Teresa
[View the story “Condemned for asking questions on Mother Teresa ” on Storify] More...
Tirukethiswaram and the Silk Road of the Sea
The history of the Sri Lankan temple of Tirukethiswaram should be viewed in the context of ancient navigational routes. Tirukethiswaram was located in Mantai, a center of sea-borne commercial links between China More...
Re-establishing Shastras in Indian Education
The Conflict between European and Indic Vidyaas There is an un-subsiding conflict between traditional and modern genres of knowledge. The latter came to India from Europe a century and half ago but have now become More...
Lutyens Durbaris equally stuck in a time warp
Good lord! Tavleen Singh is back with a vengeance against the RSS on an unprecedented scale. Of course, her venom is always couched as an “advice” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as to Mohan More...
Petition to PM Narendra Modi to Ban Foreign Funding of NGOs
Following the precedent of Manushi’s petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban foreign funding to NGOs in India, IndiaFacts has opened up this petition to the public. The purpose and goal of this petition More...
Hindus in USA join in honoring MatruBhumi
The Washington DC-based Hindu American Foundation in partnership with the Bhumi Project, based in Oxford University, are hosting The Hindu Environment Week (HEW), an international event to honor Matru Bhumi or More...
Amartya Sen’s exit from Nalanda University
[View the story “‘Secular’ defence of the Nobel Laureate” on Storify] More...
Open letter to the Indian media by a senior Navy Officer
Note: This was sent to IndiaFacts by a serving officer in the Indian Navy with over two decades of experience in various positions and involved in several operations. The name of the officer cannot be disclosed More...
Is Pakistan having the last laugh?
[View the story “The Indian media reopens the Pak rogue boat blow up” on Storify] More...