Addition of Yoga to Directive Principles of State Policy: An Open Letter to PM Modi
Dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi, At the outset, I wish to congratulate you for conceiving the idea of International Yoga Day. This important development has undoubtedly created awareness about the utility of Yoga More...
Secularism and Uniform Civil Code
India is probably the only country, wherein the concept of secularism is most perverted, both in principle and practice. After Independence, India, first borrowed this alien principle, without giving a thought regarding More...
Nehru As Seen By A Hindu Nationalist
Intellectual Warrior of Post-Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses, Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes More...
Indian Secularism Views Indian Muslims As Pakistanis
Secularism as practised in India is a threat to Indian Muslims as this essay will demonstrate. As per purely academic definitions, there are primarily two meanings of secularism. First, it is a movement of ideas More...
A Confused Journo’s Posthumous Interviews: (1) The Politician
[contextly_sidebar id=”9Ft6fQQ7M0Vf77lGpIr5m42xa7iRaWXN”] IndiaFacts regrets to announce the tragic death of Mr. Akulita Sandeha, a young and promising journalist whose body was found three days ago More...
Decoding the Honourable President’s Advice
Is the current holder of the executive power of the Union of India passing under a spell of divine or its opposite force? Are the media, the Congress Party, some 30-odd shitakes and some Nehruvian intellectuals More...
Religious Pluralism and Distorted Notions of Secularism in Education
The events of the European Reformation and its aftermath in which the material power of the Christian Church was reduced, still hang heavy as a collective memory in social orders that have inherited this civilization. More...
The Narrative is Churning Away from Pseudo Secularism
This article was co-authored with Rajneesh. An unfortunate Indian got lynched at Dadri recently. However, more unfortunately for the nation, the media embarked on a lynching of its own making, and it does not seem More...
Indian Secularism is Colour Blind
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder, while others say they are angry at the murder of the cow. Some people More...
Another Godhra in the Making?
I am beginning to worry about India’s national security in the wake of the Pakistani terrorist attacks on Gurdaspur and Udhampur as well as rumbles about cyber security, and the Taliban advance on Kunduz. Gurdaspur More...