BBC hosts sculptor who calls Narendra Modi a mass murderer
On 17 May 2014 on the BBC’s #Newsnight show that discussed Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s stupendous election victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Indian sculptor Anish More...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: the promise of a resurgent India
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very Heaven,” said William Wordsworth welcoming the fall of the ancient regime in France in 1789. Many of us heard it from Hiren Mukherjee, then an More...
Should Narendra Modi tolerate Sushma Swaraj’s tantrums?
Club 160 is at it again. L.K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, et al. Sulking, sullen, upset—these are some of the words the media uses to describe their mood. Caught in a time warp, they refuse to acknowledge More...
Arvind Kejriwal is the real paid media
Nobody could have put this better than Sadanand Dhume (Twitter: @dhume) while summarising the results of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The only reason Dhume says this and not any of our celebrated journalists More...
Election Commission wantonly flouts rules to stop Narendra Modi
It is a pity that no political analyst, no media mandarin, nor the Bharatiya Janata Party has shown the courage to haul our partisan Election Commission before the Supreme Court on the grounds of deliberate denial More...
Narendra Modi US Visa denial: an untold story
One of the reasons for the resignation of Nancy Powell as the American ambassador to India is said to be that she did not take proactive steps in the recent past for moving towards revoking the cancellation of the More...
Open letter to Amartya Sen from his batchmate
This was sent by IndiaFacts reader Sukumar Mukhopadhyay, a batchmate of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen can hardly keep quiet. He suffers from verbal diarrhea. He has, therefore, started More...
Princess Priyanka’s royal rage
When you are Royalty, ordinary rules don’t apply to you. You make the laws that are meant for other people to follow. In India, that applies almost exclusively to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. The staunchest and More...
Narendra Modi breaks the Mandal barrier
This is a guest article by an avid IndiaFacts reader and supporter. Marathon man Narendra Modi began his record breaking campaign for the 2014 general elections across India. This will take Modi’s quest for More...
Why Narendra Modi is compared only to Hitler and not Mao
Introduction The critics of Narendra Modi (including foreign governments, related agencies and NRI academics) have long been accusing him of carrying out a “genocide”, a “pogrom”, and being More...