A maharathi without a rath: the meaning of being Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst has coined two evocative terms to help understand Indian socio-political situation: ‘Negationism in India’ and ‘Decolonizing the Hindu mind’. These are also the names of his two most important More...
Father of the Nation is too Big a Crown for Him
One of the great ironies of India is that Mohandas Gandhi – rather than Gautama Buddha, Adi Shankaracharya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya – is the “Father of the Nation”. India’s history has a galaxy of 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...
Reconceptualizing India Studies: Book Review
S.N. Balagangadhara Rao, better known as Balu, is Professor of Comparative Culture Studies in Ghent University, Belgium. Balu is a Kannada Brahmin by birth, a former Marxist, and his discourse has a very in-your-face More...
Understanding Islam in perspective
If we want to understand Islam in perspective, there is no better guide than Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel. Yes not even Bernard Lewis or Daniel Pipes has done as perfectly as the duo did; their work is marred by More...
EASAS Conference in Zurich: a Report
On 23-26 July 2014, the European Association for South-Asian Studies (EASAS) held its biannual conference in Zürich, Switzerland. More than 150 participants came mostly from the EU and South Asia (including my More...
Announcing IndiaFacts webinar with Koenraad Elst
After organizing three successful seminars, IndiaFacts is delighted to announce a webinar entitled Steps to Preserve and Protect Sanatana Dharma, chaired by the renowned Indologist and scholar, Dr. Koenraad More...
Interview with Koenraad Elst on Ayodhya
We step into the 22nd year of the Babri Masjid demolition, an event that changed the course of Indian politics definitively. Yet, for an event of this magnitude, still so fresh in recent memory, we still notice More...
Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
The difference between Dharma Yuddha and Jihad
Introduction Many people from very diverse quarters say that all religions have a concept of “holy war”. In this, at least, they are all equal. Thus, the recent cases of self-defence against Muslim attacks by More...