Vijay Divas—a trip down a victorious memory lane
Every year on 11 November, we often see headlines speaking of Armistice Day which marks the ‘armistice’ signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, where Germany was the defeated party. A similar case is also seen in the annual D-Day celebrations which mark the More...
A year on, I thank my nation: Devyani Khobragade
Today is a momentous day for me. Exactly one year has passed since I was illegally arrested and jailed in New York on completely false charges brought in by my former Domestic assistant in order to get permanent More...
A House of Lords Debate on Poverty and Caste Discrimination in India: Continuing Foreign Interference in India’s Internal Affairs
This was contributed by IndiaFacts supporter Prakash Shah from the UK. A debate on poverty and caste discrimination in India took place in the British House of Lords onWednesday 26 November 2014. While the debate More...
The Barguments of the conversion intellectuals
With the conversion, re-conversion debate, raging, it is futile to count how many times the “You can only be born a Hindu, you can’t convert” argument has propped up.To say that the thinking of intellectuals More...
Lessons From China’s Ban of Namaz
According to a recent TOI report the authorities of Xinjiang region in western China have issued a ban on carrying out namaaz and other religious exercises in government buildings, schools and business offices The More...