Shivaji And The Rebirth Of A Nation
In her fiery speech in Parliament, Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani has focussed the nation’s collective attention on how the Congress and their leftist collaborators are responsible for teaching More...
False equivalence to hide self loathing by Ram Guha
I had a colleague once who hailed from a small village and whose father was an average farmer. The father worked hard to put his son through school and good engineering college. The son got a good job and like many More...
Project ACRPR: Why India?
[contextly_sidebar id=”xUZcPSfoZ3bkGMFqDQVTXhjmESOhNz6v”] ‘Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights’ housed at Haas School of Business, University of Berkeley, California aims to study internal More...
The Last Viceroy of India: Book Review
This is a review of the book, Nehru: A Troubled Legacy by R N P Singh, New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2015 The English historian, politician, and writer Lord John Dalberg-Acton wrote in an 1887 letter to Bishop Creighton, More...
Why India Should Honor Taslima Nasrin
In her article “The Role of the Writer,” Maryse Condé, the famous writer from the French speaking island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shares an interesting memory from her childhood. When she was about seven More...
Outlines of a Dharmic Grand Narrative
It is fairly self-evident that the world stands at a historic crossroads, when long-suppressed Asia is finally re-asserting itself. It is widely accepted that the Atlantic Century is long gone, and that the Indo-Pacific More...
Indian History Textbooks Are Needed To Be Rewritten Now
The debate over rewriting the history textbooks of India has been re-ignited and as usual emotions are running high where most of the people are not even aware about the issues at hand. But this has not prevented More...
A Confused Journo’s Posthumous Interviews: (1) The Politician
[contextly_sidebar id=”9Ft6fQQ7M0Vf77lGpIr5m42xa7iRaWXN”] IndiaFacts regrets to announce the tragic death of Mr. Akulita Sandeha, a young and promising journalist whose body was found three days ago More...
Lecture on Changes in the Religious Demography of India and the World in Last 100 Years: A Report
The C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research hosted a lecture on Changes in the Religious Demography of India and the World in the Last 100 Years conducted by Professor M.D.Srinivas, Chairman, Centre More...
Contours of Secular Fear Mongering
When was the last time you read or heard in the mainstream media that in many parts of India Hindus are attacked by Muslims with impunity? Do you know that entire villages in West Bengal and Kerala are burned down More...