Indian History in Perspective – 3 : How India Culturalized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”hMH0TYXI2vzoZgmgYKpOcumlFEl9LJ7s”] In the previous part, we had discussed how Indians had civilized the world. We had talked about how the R1a1a haplogroup (a genetic marker), More...
Indian History in Perspective – 2 : How India Civilized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”EY9v9asfL16rGvMD95vXlfvw0QQiRTEU”] In the previous part we had discussed how Indians had peopled and colonized the world. We had started out by pointing out the flaws of teaching More...
Propagandizing the Aryan Invasion Debate: A Rebuttal to Tony Joseph
On 16 June 2017, an article appeared on the Hindu titled “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” by Tony Joseph. This article claims that the question of the origin of the Indo-Aryan people has More...
क्या मीडिया हिन्दू विरोधी है : मीडिया की निष्पक्षता का अवलोकन |
प्रस्तावना : आज भारत में मीडिया की ख़बरों को यदि देखा जाए, तो लगता है कि भारत में अल्पसंख्यकों More...
Drishyam or How Secular Media Creates an Alternate Reality
“Rajasthan Civic Polls: BJP loses face in Raje’s bastion of Jhalawar, Dholpur,” the headlines screamed a week ago as the results of the civic body elections were declared in Rajasthan. The BJP won convincingly, More...
Uber-Liberal Op-ed Template on #SelfieWithDaughter
Take a picture with your child, #Despitehavingadaughter; take a selfie with your child and then share it with the world via Twitter showing how proud you are of your child #Despitehavingadaughter. Now that’s a More...
Secularisation of Indian Sports
After Secularization of the Constitution, of Politics, the Judiciary, Education, Art, Literature, Media, Film, etc, India is witnessing the secularisation of Indian Sports. It is difficult to exactly pinpoint when More...
A tale of two constitutions – India and Pakistan
(This was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and well-wisher, Newspaper Reader. @readernewspaper on Twitter) Although India was partitioned on religious lines, the Constituent Assembly of India chose to More...
Sagarika Ghose must go to school
On 17 September, 2014 in an op-ed on Times of India titled ‘Rename secularism. Call it ‘dharma’ or righteous administration,’ senior columnist and former news anchor Sagarika Ghose claimed among other things: Secularism More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India
Who is an intellectual? The renowned economist Fredrick Hayek defined intellectuals as persons who transmit the ideas of specialized scientists to the general population.This definition included “journalists, More...