Sarvadharma Samabhava of the Abrahamics
We Indians are told by our English-speaking intellectual, political and media elite that after May 2014 our country descended into intolerance. This intolerance is bruited both within our own country and in the More...
Hindus Are The Last Of The Pagans
Such are examples for us pagans of the gospel of the New Testament. We are all dogs, murderers, sorcerers, idolaters, liars – all synonyms for devil-worshippers, to be slain if we do not believe in Jesus. The More...
It is High Time that Hindus Woke Up
Some time ago, a news item caught my attention: Dalit Christians had filed a complaint with the United Nations against the Vatican because of caste based discrimination of the Catholic Church in India. The complaint More...
The Ongoing Crisis in Islam
After every major massacre perpetrated by Jihadists, the opinion space all over the world gets polarized between the two extremes. The liberals refuse to acknowledge any causal connection between the actions of More...
Examining the Quran
This is the second part of the IndiaFacts series analysing the Quran through a Dharmic perspective. Continuing from the introductory essay in this series, we can now begin to examine the key verses of the Quran. Bismi More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...
The Myth of Islamic Science
In this provocative essay, Waseem Altaf, the author argues that the notion of a golden age of Islamic learning is a myth created to counter the current sorry state of intellectual life in the Islamic world. Introduced 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...
Court Ruling: Some Ayats in the Quran cause Communal Riots
The reasons for the fast-rising communal tension in India and abroad was elaborately explained in the judicial verdict pronounced by Z.S. Lohat, Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi on 31 July 1986, in a case More...