The Mylapore St. Thomas myth that doesn’t seem to die: Part 2
Read Part 1 here. What stood on the place the church presently stands? And so, it was pretty clear to me that the St. Thomas coming to India story is a myth. But that doesn’t answer the question of what originally stood on the site of the St. Thomas church. The early Portuguese encounters with India have been exceptionally bloody. In their quest More...
Did Nawaz Sharif call Manmohan Singh a Dehati Aurat?
Assertion: On the eve of Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif’s meeting in New York, the Pakistani Prime Minister invited some journalists to a breakfast meeting in which he called Manmohan Singh a “dehati aurat.” More...
Gandhi was a Heterodox Hindu: Ramachandra Guha
Assertion: In an article in The Hindu about what the Hindus should be proud of and what they should be ashamed of, Ramachandra Guha makes several fantastic and misleading claims about Hindus and Hinduism. Of More...
ASI's Assault on Shankaracharya Hill
According to this Tribune news report, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has summarily renamed the Shankaracharya Hill to Takht-e-Suleiman overlooking the Dal Lake in Srinagar. If this was not enough, More...
The Mylapore St. Thomas Myth that just doesn’t seem to die: Part 1
Some myths die soon. Some take quite a long time to die. And there are some others which are kept alive by a few people whose very survival depends on the survival of those myths. One such myth that has been kept More...
Is Congress Government trying to dilute liability of US Companies?
Issue: The Manmohan Singh Government has proposed to dilute the provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act 2010 by incorporating the suggestions of the Attorney-General Vahnavati. Facts: Attorney-General More...
Abuse of Baba Ramdev in London
Baba Ramdev, India’s prominent Yoga guru and campaigner against corruption, was unexpectedly detained when he arrived at London’s Heathrow airport on Friday, the 20th September. He had visited the UK regularly More...
Zero Dead in Assam Communal Riots: RPN Singh
Assertion: On 7 May 2013, Mr. RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs tabled a report in Parliament about the number of casualties in communal riots in all states in India. The report gives the casualty More...
Muzaffarnagar Riots and Modi: Gardiner Harris
Assertion: Gardiner Harris, the South Asia Correspondent of the New York Times, in an article on Narendra Modi's anointment as the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate makes a series of patently false More...
RSS is a bomb making factory: Digvijaya Singh
Assertion: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has repeatedly claimed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) runs bomb-making factories. Facts Digvijaya Singh has a long history of abusing the RSS and the Sangh More...