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...
Remembering a Karmayogi
Our one meeting ‘How old are you?’ Sitaramji asked me. ‘Forty’. ‘You are younger than my younger son’, he said affectionately. Thus began my first and only meeting with Sitaramji in November 1993. More...
Blame it on the Kellys
Recently, there have been several well-publicized incidences of violence against Christians and/or their institutions in India. A cry went up to the heavens— ‘persecution of Christians by the Pagan Hindus!’ More...
Abrahamic ideology inspires extraterritorial loyalty
The Mongol empire founded by Chingiz Khan and furthered by his sons and grandsons was remarkable in practicing religious freedom as a state policy. The early Khans did not enforce their ancestral Altaic religion More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...
Killing the feminine: Misogyny in Christianity
“She can show you the world we come from. There’s no green there. They killed their Mother, and they’re gonna do the same thing here.” From the movie, Avatar. “The Father, the Son, and the Holy More...
In Bangalore: the Church’s strategy of polarisation
This message was sent to the IndiaFacts team anonymously. Most Respected Bishops, Priests, Nuns, Religious and Friends in Christ. Mr.Mohan Bhagwat said “Mother Teresa’s service would have been good. More...
Mother Teresa: The Eichmann of Calcutta
In The Missionary Position – Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Christopher Hitchens advises one to judge “Mother Teresa’s reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation.” More...
Obama bats for Islamic fundamentalists
By making misleading statements and peddling misinformation, US President Barack Obama is weakening the war against jihad—which, in his scheme of things, is a figment of ‘Islamophobic’ imagination. His administration More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 01 February- 08 February 2015
1. St. Stephen principal in conversion row Report: A Delhi court has asked the principal of St. Stephen College Valson Thampu and a college employee Deepak Mukarji to respond by 25 February to a complaint More...