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...
Charu Gupta’s politics of Smothering
Historian Charu Gupta in her recent op-ed in the 20 December edition of the Indian Express dropped her pearls of wisdom on the issue of re-conversion, or homecoming, a topic which is suddenly the main headlines More...
EXTRACT FROM ANWAR SHAIKH’S BOOK ON ISLAM
The following is an extract from a 40 page booklet titled “ISLAM” authored by the late Anwar Shaikh, my friend. Anwar published it in December 1994 through his own company named ‘The Principality Publishers, More...
Exclusivist faiths, fundamental rights and the consequences of fundamentalism
This article studies the admissibility of certain systems with respect to the fundamental rights given in the Constitution of India under Article 25 – the right to freedom of conscience and religion, and under More...
Kancha Ilaiah the time-traveler
On 22 September Kancha Ilaiah wrote an op-ed in the Asian Age sharing his ‘wisdom’ regarding the controversial phenomenon of Love Jihad. As is the case with most self-proclaimed progressives in India, Mr.Ilaiah More...
ISIS IS DEADLY: WAKE UP INDIA!
Though the announcement by the jihadi outfit ISIS of the formation of a Caliphate under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has caused enormous consternation among the strategic analyst across the world, the full implications More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 8 September 2014 — 14 September 2014
1. Hindu girl in Bangladesh kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam Report: Eti Rani Acharjee, daughter of Moni Acharjee and Shova Rani Acharjee who is a minor girl of only 14 years was abducted on 23rd August More...
Plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
This piece was submitted to IndiaFacts by a Bangladeshi Hindu who wishes to remain anonymous. On 17 August, I participated in the festive procession organized as part of the Janmasthami in Dhaka. I enjoyed my time More...
Dispelling the myth of Akbar the Great
Introduction The 15 July 2004 edition of the Ananda Bazar Patrika carried an article ‘Mata binimoyer mukto ganotantroei uttorener path,batlalen Amartya’ (‘Exchange of opinions as practiced in liberal democracy More...
Rending the veil of historical negationism in India
(An analysis of Aavarana: The Veil by S.L. Bhyrappa. Translated into English by Sandeep Balakrishna. Paperback: 400 pages. Publisher: Rupa Books Co., 2014. ISBN-13: 978-8129124883) Introduction Ostensibly a work More...