Why the Congress should not be given the Leader of Opposition
The short and simple answer: it hasn’t earned it and therefore doesn’t deserve it. The slightly longer answer: with a paltry 44 MPs, it doesn’t have the 10% strength required to become the Leader of Opposition. There’s More...
How a chaiwallah enabled a Kutch villager’s vision for India
On our return from the Safed Rann (White Desert) back to Ahmedabad, we stopped by at Dhaaneti, an ordinary Kutchhi village off the Bhuj-Bhachau highway, made up of a few hundred well maintained homes set in narrow More...
VHP’s Open Letter to Aamir Khan
From the desk of Ashok Chowgule, Working President (External), Vishwa Hindu Parishad June 28, 2014 Dear Aamirji, Pranam, We would like to refer to your recent meeting with the prime minister, Shri Narendra Modi. More...
Narendra Modi’s first month: an objective assessment
A month is a very short period in the life of a government—especially a government that cannot be dislodged in less than five years. So, it will be premature to judge the Narendra Modi ministry after 30 days. Before More...
Ideas to combat destructive NGOs
The Narendra Modi government’s campaign against non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is welcome, especially because the previous regime indulged them to the extent of blind appeasement. However, it would be better More...
Narendra Modi’s visa denial still an unhealed wound
Narendra Modi’s thumping electoral victory and his ascension as Prime Minister has evoked all kinds of reactions across the world—the reactions fall in the broad gamut between “how could this happen?” to More...
The Economist’s explanation is rooted in hubris and Hinduphobia
On June 1, the Economist “explains” as to “Why and how we make election endorsements.” First, it is not an explanation of any sort. It is the crudest display of an arrogant and garrulous More...
Nationalism as a misstatement of Hindu concerns
Time and again, also after Narendra Modi’s historic election victory, we see a correct pro-Hindu message take an erroneous nationalist turn which detracts from its original pro-Hindu intention. This is precisely More...
Narendra Modi should scrap Section 66-A
The evil that men do lives after them, said Antony in Julius Caesar, but the good is oft interred with their bones. Thankfully, what is true about men is not true about regimes. The Congress-led United Progressive More...
Karnataka: Congress jails BJP leaders for celebrating Modi win
This ground report was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and supporter. BJP leader B.G. Patil Yatnal and other BJP activists–Umesh Kore, Parasuram Kenganal and Yellappa–have been framed and arrested in Bijapur More...