Revisiting the panic around FCRA

In the light of recent events—of cancellations of FCRA-NGOs and tightening FCRA laws—we have revisited Sri Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s 2011 article:  http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/that-seventies-feeling/804154/0 and see, how, in hindsight, his arguments back then were invalid. First, his dangerous suggestion that the notion of accountability More...

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By Anirban R Banerjee On Friday, July 3rd, 2015
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West Bengal as a Jihadi Playground

Uninspired by the need to safeguard India’s national security, Mamata supports jihadis on West Bengal soil, who aim to establish an Islamic Caliphate in the West Bengal and Assam by driving out non-Muslims In More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
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Ethnic Cleansing of Hindus in Panchagram

Ground reports from Hindu Samhati, West Bengal yesterday inform IndiaFacts that their volunteers visited Panchagram, 35 Kms away from Kolkata. Panchagram is the site of massive ethnic cleansing of Hindus at the More...


By Shiva Kumaran On Monday, June 29th, 2015
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Examining the Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules (2011)

Summary The FCRA Wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs has recently made public the draft of Proposed Amendments to FCRR (2011). This article summarizes the proposed changes and attempts to evaluate their effect, More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Sunday, June 28th, 2015
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Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 21-28 June 2015

1. Call goes out to mosques from Muslim law board: rally against rising Hindutva forces Report: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has come out openly against what it calls is the rising influence More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
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Rating chart for girls

This is a translation of an essay titled Meyeder Ratechart published in ABP on 31 May 2015. Michelle Obama is worth only forty American dollars. Not a cent more. Indeed, even $40 is too much for someone like her More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
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The Christian roots of our ecological crisis

Prof White was a historian of medieval Christianity who conjectured that Christian influence in the Middle Ages was the root cause of the ecological crisis in the 20th century. He gave a lecture on December 26, More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Sunday, June 21st, 2015
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Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 14-21 June 2015

CPM attack on famed Jagannatha Temple in Thalassery Report: With anything Hindu being anathema for Marxist hooligans, their audacity has stooped to new levels, the latest being the unleashing of terror and looting More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Thursday, June 18th, 2015
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An Interview with Pope Francis on Twitter

On 3 Dec 2012, the Pope joined Twitter and ever since, @pontifex has been tweeting pretty regularly, May the Lord Bless Him. Based on a curation of some of his tweets in which he weighs on weighty matters like God, More...


By Sankrant Sanu On Sunday, June 14th, 2015
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Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 7-14 June 2015

1. Hindus denied the right to cremate in Meghalaya Report: Hindus of Tura town- Garo Hills, Meghalaya are under continuous pressure from local NGOs for abandoning present cremation ground which they are using for More...