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By Tufail Ahmad On Monday, January 19th, 2015
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The Case for reform of Islam in India

Speaking about the risk of a likely lone wolf attack in India, Maharashtra state police chief Sanjeev Dayal told a newspaper in January: “we had this case where this man wanted to go to a school in Bandra More...

By Koenraad Elst On Saturday, January 17th, 2015
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Encyclopaedia of Hinduism: A Review

A major and long-awaited project has been brought to completion. The 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism, with a foreword by Dr. Karan Singh, is the brainchild of the India Heritage Research Foundation and Swami More...

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By IndiaFacts Staff On Saturday, January 17th, 2015
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What the CAG report said about Leela Samson

This Hindu news report mentions that Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief Leela Samson has put in her papers on Thursday. To affix the “controversial” adjective to Leela Samson is to state the obvious. Proximity More...

By Poulasta Chakraborthy On Friday, January 16th, 2015
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Have the Left-Liberals read Dr. Ambedkar at all?

For decades we have become accustomed to hearing the diatribes of many so-called progressives that Hindu society at large is responsible for all the woes that plague India today, and in order to achieve progress More...

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By Poulasta Chakraborthy On Thursday, January 15th, 2015
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Harsh Mander’s article on ghar wapsi conceals his Christian funders

In the 13 January edition of Hindustan Times, well-known social activist and former member of the Sonia Gandhi-headed NAC, Harsh Mander opined on the conversion-reconversion debate thus: Free India was born in a More...

By Dr. Krishen Kak On Thursday, January 15th, 2015
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God and the Constitution of India

We Indians claim to be a secular democratic republic, governed by a Constitution of India we have given ourselves. If indeed we are secular, why do we recognize “god” in our Constitution? No, the Constitution More...

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By IndiaFacts Staff On Monday, January 12th, 2015
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Jawaharlal Nehru the committed Communist

This essay forms the foreword of Sita Ram Goel’s study of Jawaharlal Nehru titled Genesis and Growth of Nehruism. Authored by the former British Comintern agent Philip Spratt in 1963, it is a relatively More...

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By IndiaFacts Staff On Friday, January 9th, 2015
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IndiaFacts impact: WELS takes down its blog after our expose

On 31 December 2014, the IndiaFacts team exposed the rape of a minor girl by a Parish in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)-funded orphanage near Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Our expose focused on the various More...

By Shankara S On Thursday, January 8th, 2015
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Left liberals and Anglicized secularists’ game of manufactured outrage

The die was cast, the tables were cleared and fresh plans were laid out sometime in May 2014. Left wingers and the Anglicized seculars rallied to the bugle call to save India’s secular fabric from the unwashed More...

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor On Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
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Is Congress batting for Pakistan’s interest?

The alacrity with which the Congress has tried to corner the government over the Pakistani boat incident speaks volumes about not just the grand old party’s intellectual bankruptcy but also its proclivity to downplay More...