Sabarimala, gau rakshaks, and the Smriti Irani-Kamal Haasan debate
Smriti Irani and Kamal Haasan faced off in a recent debate moderated by Arnab Goswami. The Hindu-baiting Kamal Haasan was, not surprisingly, easily decimated. Irani argued effectively on fighting terrorism and respecting More...
Unasked Questions On Rohith’s Suicide
Despite the reams of print ink and TV diarrhea on the death of 26-year-old student, Rohith Vemula, on January 17/18, 2016, on Hyderabad University campus, there remain unanswered questions because the unbelievable More...
De-Marxification of HRD angers lapsed Marxist
There’s one thing that necessarily needs to be said about lapsed Marxists: they never fail to disappoint. And so it goes, in the 20 May edition of the Indian Express where cricket historian and scholar Ramachandra More...
Misrepresentation and Education do not go together
This rejoinder was sent to IndiaFacts by Sri Nachiketa Tiwari, Co-ordinator of the Hindu Economic Conference in the recently concluded World Hindu Conference, 2014. This is a rejoinder to the article “Why do Hindus More...
Why Smriti Irani needs to introduce Sanskrit on a war footing
For Hindus abroad, depending on circumstances, knowledge of Indian languages is probably lost. In a few places, native languages are perhaps viable, like Hindi in Suriname or Tamil in Singapore. If Hindu families 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...