Brief history of temples in IIT-Madras campus
This essay is jointly authored by the following writers hailing from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras: Arun Ayyar: Alumnus of Department of Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Harish Ganapathy: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Madras Hemanth C: Department of Electrical Engg., More...
Cancellation of registrations of 1000+ NGOs in AP is a welcome move
The Foreign Contribution (Regulatory) Act (FCRA) provides a mechanism for Organizations to receive foreign funds for various activities which are broadly classified into Educational, Religious, Economic, Social More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 15 February- 22 February 2015
1. Hindu temple vandalised in Washington with hate message Report: A Hindu temple has been vandalized with hate message and swastika spray-painted on its wall in the state of Washington in the United States, the More...
Views on Hindu contemporary activism
Secular cum laude The French India scholar Christophe Jaffrelot has collected his recent papers in a hefty volume: Religion, Caste & Politics in India (Primus, Delhi 2010). I had hardly been following his work More...
Mushirul Hasan: The Eminent Nehruvian
This article was contributed by IndiaFacts reader, Arvind Singh Dev. Nehru’s India is the name given to a bunch of speeches made by the first prime minister. As the title suggests the speeches, ranging from constitutional More...
Anders Breivik should have read the Brussels Journal
Remember Anders Breivik? The frustrated youth who went on a killing spree in Norway on 22 July 2011 because he felt that the multiculturalists continued to poison public discourse on Islam and decided to vent his More...
Combating Love Jihad: Social and legal perspectives
Ever since the gang-rape case of a 20 year-old girl from Sarawa village of Distt Meerut who was allegedly abducted, raped and forcibly converted to Islam came into light, the political environment of India is heating More...
Kicking disabled people: AAP style
A worker of the Aam Aadmi Party, which now heads the state of Delhi, recently distinguished himself at an Aurangabad public protest meet where he repeatedly kicked a disabled individual who had fallen down, in full More...