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...
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...
Vadra Vs Gandhi
What the world is watching and perceiving to be a battle between BJP and Congress on Robert Vadra’s land deal is actually a fight between Vadra and Gandhi i.e. a fight between Priyanka Vadra and Rahul Gandhi. Political More...
Narendra Modi: the great disrupter
Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst’s Decolonising the Hindu Mind is a scholarly survey—and his doctoral thesis—that examined in depth just one question: the causes behind the astonishing rise of the Bharatiya Janata More...
Decoding Sonia Gandhi’s Hindusthaniyat and Bharatiyata
The Queen of the crumbling palace of cards came on TV a couple of days ago and waxed eloquent for all of three minutes mouthing the same Nehruvian platitudes that over six decades have contributed the comprehensive More...
Arvind Kejriwal takes his gloves off
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s latest spat with the media reminds us of a painful irony of the modern era: evil does not enter the public domain stealthily; it marches in the open, often with aplomb, More...
Sushma Swaraj bats for Congress
The evil empire that the Congress spawned after Independence is fighting tooth and nail against the outsider, Narendra Modi. For the popes and bishops and the barons and dukes of ancien regime know it too well More...
Rahul Gandhi’s false sadness
The Congress’s faith in the credulity of the people of India seems to be strengthened by every passing moment. The statements its leaders make and the decisions its ministers take are predicated upon the belief More...
UPA’s sham on inflation
After almost a decade of misrule, it has dawned on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that inflation is… well, something very bad. So, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram recently said that inflationary More...
Rahul Gandhi: A Multi-Fact Meter
Note: This is a departure from IndiaFacts’ usual format of a Fact Meter, which typically involves a single assertion or claim followed by an examination of the facts and then followed by the Fact Meter More...