Happy Birthday Mr Gandhi!
Dear Mr Gandhi, Since childhood, we are taught to worship you as the best thing to happen to this country, the perfect human. There is no escaping you in India. Your face smiles at us on banknotes, your name is More...
Cow Protection of Mahatma Gandhi – Appeasing Muslims and Bullying Dalits
Controversies about cow protection frequently emerge in Indian polity, and every time it does, the proponents and opponents of cow protection seek to bolster their respective cases by selectively quoting Mohandas More...
The New Delhi World Culture Festival and the Legacy of the American Civil Rights Movement
New Delhi will be hosting a momentous event from March 11-13th, the World Culture Festival. In the words of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the moving force behind the festival: “We are inspired to continue with more More...
Nehru exposed: Snooping on Bose’s kin
The recent revelations that Jawaharlal Nehru snooped on Subhas Chandra Bose’s kin will go a long way exposing the first prime minister as a cunning politician. Generations of Indians have been fed on the Congress-Left More...
The case for an Indian Right intellectual ecosystem
His body was placed on a raised chair in a sitting posture. From the early hours of the morning, enormous crowds gathered to catch a last glimpse of their departed leader. People had started arriving in special More...
Congress Crimes 3: Surrender to terror
Note: This column is authored by Mohan Mahapatra with commentary by Dr. N.S. Rajaram. Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are More...
Bhagat Singh: an Impartial Assessment
The revolutionary movement was an epic of bravery and self-sacrifice, and this deserves to be celebrated. Indians proved that they were willing to fight and would no longer put up with the ignominy of foreign rule. More...
RSS wasn't associated with freedom struggle: Telegraph
Note: As part of IndiaFacts’ call to the public to send us instances of distortions about facts relating to Hinduism and India, we are delighted to inform that Mr. Seshadri from Chennai has sent us the following More...
Salil Tripathi Wants no Heroes
Ordinary men rise to become heroes because of the ideals and values they espouse. And heroes are seldom remembered for their looks, skin tone or other facets of their physical personality. Heroes are remembered More...
Gandhi was a Heterodox Hindu: Ramachandra Guha
Assertion: In an article in The Hindu about what the Hindus should be proud of and what they should be ashamed of, Ramachandra Guha makes several fantastic and misleading claims about Hindus and Hinduism. Of More...