Attention Ajaz Ashraf: your “Hindu” guide doesn’t quite cut it
The article titled Attention Bhagwat, Swaraj et al: Here’s a guide to your favourite word ‘Hindu’(dated 26 August 2014) which appeared on Firstpost, was supposed to counter the recent statements More...
Hindus must reclaim their history
In an opinion piece in Outlook (“Chaining 1200 years”, 7-7-2014), Hasan Suroor takes issue with PM Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that Indians suffer from a slave mentality due to “1200 years” of oppression. More...
Tell-Tale Signs of America Spying on the BJP
There is great hullabaloo in the Indian media about the alleged discovery of highly sophisticated bugging devices planted in Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s residence on Teen Murti Marg. Many media mandarins More...
Why the Congress should not be given the Leader of Opposition
The short and simple answer: it hasn’t earned it and therefore doesn’t deserve it. The slightly longer answer: with a paltry 44 MPs, it doesn’t have the 10% strength required to become the Leader of Opposition. There’s More...
Karnataka: Congress jails BJP leaders for celebrating Modi win
This ground report was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and supporter. BJP leader B.G. Patil Yatnal and other BJP activists–Umesh Kore, Parasuram Kenganal and Yellappa–have been framed and arrested in Bijapur More...
Narendra Modi’s challenge to Islam
Narendra Modi poses the greatest challenge to Islam since modern Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, perhaps an even greater one. This has been understood perfectly by adherents to the marginal Wahhabi sect that has More...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: the promise of a resurgent India
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very Heaven,” said William Wordsworth welcoming the fall of the ancient regime in France in 1789. Many of us heard it from Hiren Mukherjee, then an More...
Should Narendra Modi tolerate Sushma Swaraj’s tantrums?
Club 160 is at it again. L.K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, et al. Sulking, sullen, upset—these are some of the words the media uses to describe their mood. Caught in a time warp, they refuse to acknowledge More...
Narendra Modi breaks the Mandal barrier
This is a guest article by an avid IndiaFacts reader and supporter. Marathon man Narendra Modi began his record breaking campaign for the 2014 general elections across India. This will take Modi’s quest for More...
Narendra Modi: the great disrupter
Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst’s Decolonising the Hindu Mind is a scholarly survey—and his doctoral thesis—that examined in depth just one question: the causes behind the astonishing rise of the Bharatiya Janata More...