IndiaFacts Impact: Sagarika Ghose Apologizes
In keeping with the IndiaFacts credo of reintroducing decency in public discourse, we ran a Fact Check on Sagarika Ghose’s tweet that called the Supreme Court judge–who delivered the Section 377 verdict–a crackpot. As with other IndiaFacts Fact Meters, this one, too was well-researched and cited several legal precedents to arrive More...
SHOCKING: Terror’s Own Country
When Vipin Gopal coined God’s Own Country as a catchphrase to describe Kerala’s natural beauty–and thereby to promote its tourism–we can be sure that he didn’t envisage that it would More...
Origins of Pseudosecularism in Nehru-Patel Rift
Not many people know that the term ‘pseudo-secularism’ originated in the rift between Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru’s hunger for power and his shenanigans had prevented Sardar Patel More...
Ashish Khetan equates Islamic Jihad with Hindutva
One of the oldest tricks in the textbook of India’s self-proclaimed secularists is to blame pro-Hindu forces for terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic jihadists. This trick aims at achieving two objectives. More...
What's wrong with the Indian public discourse
Whilst preparing the nationalistic upsurge against the foreign regime of Alexander of Macedonia in the territory of erstwhile Bharat, (that included the present day Afghanistan or the Af-Pak Region), the celebrated More...
When removal of superstition becomes an assault
Note: The following article is a translation of Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh's piece in Kannada that appeared in Vijaya Vani published on 10 November 2013. This translation also incorporates several points More...
RSS wasn't associated with freedom struggle: Telegraph
Note: As part of IndiaFacts’ call to the public to send us instances of distortions about facts relating to Hinduism and India, we are delighted to inform that Mr. Seshadri from Chennai has sent us the following More...
How Narendra Modi has cornered the Congress
I have been concerned for some time that the Congress Party’s sharply declining poll numbers would lead them to adopt desperate measures to hang on to power. I doubt they can win in 2014 in a fair fight. Therefore, More...
Salil Tripathi Wants no Heroes
Ordinary men rise to become heroes because of the ideals and values they espouse. And heroes are seldom remembered for their looks, skin tone or other facets of their physical personality. Heroes are remembered More...
RPN Singh blames BJP for Rajiv Gandhi's lax security
Assertion: On 6 November 2013, the BJP Parliamentary Board passed a resolution seeking Prime Ministerial level security cover for Narendra Modi, its Prime Ministerial Candidate. Reacting to this, Minister of State More...