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...

Decoding Sonia Gandhi’s Hindusthaniyat and Bharatiyata

The Queen of the crumbling palace of cards came on TV a couple of days ago and waxed eloquent for all of three minutes mouthing the same Nehruvian platitudes that over six decades have contributed the comprehensive More...

The Kerji files: Anarchist or anti-national?

Introduction: Arvind Kejriwal’s dubious funding sources There is no denying the fact that Arvind Kejriwal, a newly commissioned  secular anarchist romping  across  India’s political theatre has confounded More...

2014 Elections: Quick Quotes

Because the election season has more or less begun, IndiaFacts, in keeping with its credo of restoring decency in public discourse, presents some quick quotes sent in by a reader. The goal is to help the reader More...