Narendra Modi didn’t visit riot victims for 35 days
Assertion: National spokesperson of the Congress party Sanjay Jha in a Tweet on 2 November 2013 claimed as follows: . Facts Communal riots erupted in Gujarat after 59 innocent Kar Sevaks were burnt alive in the More...
The Story Behind Nehru & Indira Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader, Ashok (Twitter handle: @nationalizer). It all started with a curiosity. I was going through the list of Bharat Ratna awardees which contains three of the six Nehru-Gandhi More...
The only Sardar of India
“Just imagine the most difficult and delicate situation in which we were placed at the time of attaining independence, with some 600 Indian States of all shapes and sizes and in different degrees of advancement More...
How Christianity receives state patronage in Andhra Pradesh
Note: This is a guest article contributed by IndiaFacts reader Ashok. Imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if Narendra Modi just as much as mentions the Hindu word: the whole nation will decry his “majoritarian More...
George Fernandes takes down Sonia’s portrait
The following video is an archived news report of an incident that occurred in 2004. The original video can be found on YouTube at this link. http://www.indiafacts.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Sonia-Gandhi.mp4 Here More...
Congress Loses its Marbles
The sight of a sombre Manish Tiwari denouncing Narendra Modi in hushed tones of angst, for suggesting the ailing imported empress abdicate in favour of her befuddled son, illustrated poignantly the ignominy to which More...
Secular Hypocrisy: From Shah Bano to Tarun Tejpal
While proclaiming to uphold liberal values like women’s rights, secular intellectuals and the Congress become tongue-tied and even collaborators when unspeakable outrages are committed against women by those considered More...
Guha’s Congress Definition is Opportunistic
Assertion Ramachandra Guha provides the following definitions of the Congress party in two separate articles, written for separate publications. In the first written in the Times of India on 13 November 2013, More...
Rahul Gandhi’s campaign of calumny
In holding up Rahul Gandhi as hero Congress has deeply offended talented, high achieving people by placing privilege of birth above character and achievement. To go with it, he and his family are seen as more interested 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...