India Inspires Talks- Indian Civilization
IndiaFacts Research Centre is delighted to announce that that India Inspires Foundation (www.indiainspires.org) is organizing an event featuring lectures by prominent scholars of Indian civilization. This two-day More...
IndiaFacts Webinar : Indian Culture and India’s Future
IndiaFacts is delighted to announce a webinar by the renowned indologist, researcher and author Michel Danino on India’s culture and India’s future. The following are the details of the webinar: Topic: Indian More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
Rearming Hinduism: Book Review
Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia and the Return of Indian Intelligence Paperback, by Vamsee Juluri He who controls the history of a people controls the people. Colonization of the land is easier to More...
Anxiety in the Western Academia’s Ivory Tower
“Sling mud; even if the mud does not stick, the stain will stay for long.” asatyam api dur-vachanam chiram tishthati = Vilification, even if groundless, lasts long. These are but some of the maxims being deployed More...
Musings of a Hindu Savage
I am a Hindu savage. And I need to be civilised. My friends would have you believe so. A recent conversation with a high school friend of mine on Hinduism reminded me of a scene from the 80s movie, Crocodile Dundee. Dundee More...
The Realm of Indra
Indra is the Indo-Aryan version of the preeminent deity of the ancestral Indo-European pantheon. In the Vedic texts, we see remnants of what might have been an ancient tripartition of this deity, as manifest on More...
The case for Sanskrit as National Language of India
In my previous column, I had raised the possibility of adopting Sanskrit as the national language of India. But Hindi, along with English, has been our official language since independence. Therefore, before I move More...
Say ‘Om’ to Sanskrit
The British left long ago but sheer inertia and a colonized mindset has ensured that the legacy of blind deference to the English language survive to this day. So ubiquitous and ingrained is such servile behaviour More...
Sita Ram Goel: The Rishi of a resurgent India
A Prophet of Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes which he saw as More...