ORPs In Jharkhand
[contextly_sidebar id=”oD6vdstCcFrRNSa9GCTAh2ciwDhZsI29″] In the previous post, we have noted that the decline in the share of Indian Religionists (IRs), and the corresponding rise of Muslims and Christians, More...
Religion Data of Census 2011: II The Imbalance Worsens
In this second post on the religion data of Census 2011, we give the main national aggregate numbers about the changes that have taken place in the share of different communities during 2001-11, and try to put these More...
Religious Pluralism and Distorted Notions of Secularism in Education
The events of the European Reformation and its aftermath in which the material power of the Christian Church was reduced, still hang heavy as a collective memory in social orders that have inherited this civilization. More...
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...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest:5 January-11 January 2015
1. Hindu girl forced to convert to Islam, lodges FIR in Ranchi Report: On 8 January a twenty five year old Hindu girl lodged an FIR against husband Waqar Danish Anwar claiming that he was torturing her for the last More...
PK is slow poison
This article was sent by IndiaFacts reader, Anand Mathur. You can follow him on Twitter @anand153. No one can deny the fact that cinema is one of the most powerful mediums of communication. Not only does it act More...
Christian missionaries target every single component of Hindu society
Scheming Sadhus, Shastris, Maamis and Iyers The Church, which focused on harvesting Scheduled Castes and Most Backward Classes in the beginning, has also started concentrating on the upper echelons of the Hindu More...
A caution to Hindus who think Jesus is dharmic or a saint
Normally, several well-known or otherwise Hindu gurus make some common claims about Jesus which typically go along these lines:: 1. The most significant aspect of Jesus’ teaching was “living without prejudice, More...
Proselytisation in India: A critique from a Dharmic perspective
1) Background A correspondent recently sent me a print-copy of Mr C.Alex Alexander’s “Proselytisation in India: An Indian Christian’s Perspective” describing it as “a fair and reasonable More...