Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
Negationism of Vijayanagar History
In several articles and speeches since at least 2004 (“Trapped in the ruins”, The Guardian, 20 March 2004), and especially in the commotion provoked by Girish Karnad’s speech in Mumbai (autumn 2012), William More...
Tipu Sultan Originated the Salaam Aarati at Kollur: Vijaya Karnataka
Assertion : In an article in the mainstream Kannada Daily Vijaya Karnataka on 10 October 2013, a ritual practiced in the coastal temple of Kollur was reported. The following is the translated summary of the original More...
U R Ananthamurthy's Serial Distortions
Introduction In the past few days, the Kannada media has seen a lot of discussion pertaining to the remarks made by Dr. U R Ananthamurthy (URA) about Narendra Modi. Many columnists have penned scathing rebuttals More...
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 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...