10 months of Narendra Modi Government: An Assessment
No government elected for a term of five years can be reasonably judged within its first ten months in office. But the clamour to judge has become irresistible and emphatic conclusions already drawn. Narendra Modi, More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...
Mr. Julio Ribeiro, aren’t you an Indian first?
In the 16 March edition of the Indian Express, the well-respected (retired) police officer Julio Ribeiro wrote an alarmist column claiming how he is feeling threatened and alienated as a Christian in his land of More...
IndiaFacts Interview with Hindol Sengupta
IndiaFacts editor Sandeep Balakrishna recently caught up with author and journalist, Hindol Sengupta for a casual chat about his latest Recasting India, which has received critical acclaim. Recasting India has been More...
Lutyens Durbaris equally stuck in a time warp
Good lord! Tavleen Singh is back with a vengeance against the RSS on an unprecedented scale. Of course, her venom is always couched as an “advice” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as to Mohan More...
Narendra Modi and the Law of Unspecified Prerequisites
A most important factor responsible for rout of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi Assembly polls pertains to a simple fact: the Narendra Modi dispensation forgot the fundamental difference between divine powers More...
BJP’s upward swing to continue in Jharkhand
The upward swing of Bharatiya Janata Party’s political fortunes in electoral battles is likely to continue with the unabated saffron surge in the coming elections in the state of Jharkhand. The Jharkhand Legislative More...
RAJDEEP SARDESAI CLEAN BOWLED BY NATIONALIST GOOGLY
Beginning in the late 1980s and throughout most of the 1990s, the slogan Garv Se Kaho Hum Hindu Hain’ was countered with ‘Communalism/Fascism is on the rise’ headlines on several newspapers. If translated More...
WHO DOES NARENDRA MODI REPRESENT WITH A ‘DISMAL’ 31% VOTE SHARE?
This was sent by IndiaFacts reader, Anoop Bhat. There is a huge hue and cry among the sections who call themselves progressive thinkers or secularists or liberals. Whenever Mr. Modi says he has got a mandate from More...
THE BLATANT CASTEISM OF RAJDEEP SARDESAI
This tweet was made on 9 November by eminent journalist Rajdeep Sardesai the occasion being the swearing in of two new ministers in the Modi cabinet, both belonging to the Goud Saraswat Brahmin group: Manohar Parikkar More...