March Month Article

• Shekhar Gupta and his website slammed for making open defecation a Hindu-Muslim issue
  • Opindia.com
    Journalist Shekhar Gupta who was once called a “wheeler-dealer” on live television has almost made it a habit of getting regularly slammed on Twitter.......

• Kapil Sibal threatens to sue OpIndia – Here is our response
  • Nupur J Sharma
    While answering questions raised by journalists and the BJP that were based on OpIndia story about Kapil Sibal.......

• Friedrich Hayek in the age of Cambridge Analytica
  • Archit Puri
    In 1952, US presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower used what at the time was the most technologically advanced way of advertising.......

• 59 Naxalites surrender in Sukma district
  • The Times of India
    Fifty-nine Naxalites, including 16 women, surrendered in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh today, a senior police official said.......

• The Peshwa Bajirao, Marxist historians don’t want you to know about
  • Animesh Pandey
    28th March – Does this date ring a bell in your mind? Maybe, maybe not......

• India Is Building New Roads at a Breakneck Pace
  • Dhwani Pandya
    India has awarded road contracts at a “breakneck pace” in 2018, raising the prospect that orders will reach a record this financial year......

• Ilayaraja, Jesus and Ramana
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Ilayaraja has asserted the right to question the historicity of the claims of Evangelicals. And for that, he should be applauded.......

• Centre throws caste benefits spanner into Lingayat religion debate
  • The Week
    Accusing the Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka government of playing politics in the name of religion.....

• Narendra Modi govt begins selling enemy properties, process to raise Rs 1 lakh crore for national exchequer
  • DNA India.com
    In a bid enrich its coffers by about Rs 1 lakh crore, the government has started the process of monetisation of more than 9,400 enemy properties by issuing guidelines......

• Narendra Modi govt begins selling enemy properties, process to raise Rs 1 lakh crore for national exchequer
  • DNA India.com
    In a bid enrich its coffers by about Rs 1 lakh crore, the government has started the process of monetisation of more than 9,400 enemy properties by issuing guidelines......

• Reforming the IAS requires reforming the system of governance
  • Ashok Chowgule
    Milan Vaishnav and Saksham Khosla have co-authored a paper entitled “The Indian Administrative Service Meets Big Data”.......

• A story of when BJP came to rescue Mayawati’s honor and life in 1995 and how selective history is being quoted now
  • Tatvam Asi
    “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”........

• 15 Naxals arrested in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma
  • Economic Times
    Fifteen Naxals, two of them carrying cash rewards, were arrested from two places in Chhattisgarh's Maoist hotbed Sukma district, police said today........

• Meeting ‘Nadedaduva Devaru’, The Walking God
  • Shefali Vaidya
    Seer, champion of education, and a karmayogi - meeting Shri Shri Shivakumar Swamy is an opportunity to learn, seek blessings, and be inspired.......

• The role of the NCC in 1965 Indo-Pak war
  • The Economic Times
    While the role of the armed forces in the 1965 war with Pakistan is well documented, the National Cadet Corps put in its bit too.......

• Saikat Datta Spread Fake News and Endangered The Safety of an Unsuspecting Student?
  • The True Picture
    A couple of days ago, Rahul Gandhi was asked by a girl in Karnataka about NCC and the facilities he would provide for those who pass a particular level in it.......

• Narendra Modi’s UPI massive success; Mastercard, Visa Inc lose market share in India
  • Bloomberg
    Global card companies like Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are losing market share to upstarts in the world’s most innovative payments market: India......

• Varanasi frees up its skies, by making its electricity distribution network completely underground
  • Opindia.com
    The holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh has achieved the distinction of becoming a ‘wireless city’ after the implementation of a project to lay down underground power lines......

• National anthem played for first time in Tripura Assembly
  • The Times of India
    The national anthem was played for the first time in the Tripura Assembly on Friday.......

• Delhi police release video showing assault on cops by JNU students
  • Repprod.Azureedge.net
    Chaos and anarchy erupted in the National Capital on Friday when a protest being held by JNU students and teachers was brought to a halt near the INA market.......

• The story of India’s telecom revolution
  • Rajeev Mantri & Harsh Gupta
    In the aftermath of the 2009 general elections, a news report by Rediff.com cited Congress MP Kapil Sibal.......

• Don’t advise women to lodge false rape cases: court
  • Nirnimesh Kumar
    ‘DCW counsellors at police stations must support rape victims’.......

• The War Within: Ideology That Killed 39 Indians In Iraq Is Not New To India
  • Raghav Awasthi
    Don’t think the war is in Iraq, away from home. The war with Islamism is here, in India........

• Digging Deep: Ongoing excavation at Purana Qila reveals new chapter in history of Delhi
  • Poulomi Banerjee
    The story goes that there was once a bitter feud over property and power in a large joint family. The family was wealthy........

• Usual suspects float conspiracy theories as Congress tries to distance itself from Cambridge Analytica
  • Opindia.com
    Even as Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to ‘step up’ to fix the data privacy issues faced by the social..........

• Among the 7 member committee who recommended to declare Lingayat separate religion, there were no Lingayats!
  • Postcard Team
    Since two days, the entire country is shocked to see how Hindu community has been divided by the Congress..........

• How to invent a martyr
  • Ravi Shanker Kapoor
    Everybody loves a martyr in India. And the intensity of love is so great that if some group finds no suitable candidate in sight..........

• For Sir Winston Churchill Was An Honourable Man
  • Abhinav Agarwal
    24th January, 2015 was the fiftieth death anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill. While many celebrated the legacy and work of this British statesman there were also others who pointed out Churchill’s other side...........

• Periyar’s lies regarding Ramayana
  • Vignesh Killur
    The recent controversy over the vandalism of Periyar’s statue in Vellore, Tamil Nadu has yet again cast the spotlight on his legacy...........

• Have You Set Out To Abandon The Very Fundamentals Of Basavanna‘s Teachings?
  • SL Bhyrappa
    The Lingayats want to declare themselves as a minority separate from the Hindus...........

• National Herald case: Delhi HC orders Young Indian to deposit Rs 10.cr in Income Tax recovery notice of Rs.250 crores
  • Pgurus.com
    In a big setback to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, the Delhi High Court (HC) on Monday directed their company Young Indian to deposit Rs.10 crores ($1.67 million)..........

• Has Cambridge Analytica already breached your privacy for Congress?
  • Piyush Kulshreshtha
    On March 16, 2018, when Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica from accessing its services...........

• No Ms Romila Thapar, even to a 15 year old student like me, you don’t make sense
  • Assertiveteen
    12th March 2018 was an amusing day when NDTV decided to publish an article on Political Parties Rewriting Books...........

• World Bank Did a Detailed Analysis of GST, Media Cherry-Picked Only a Few Lines
  • The True Picture
    There has been a lot of commentary on the ‘India Development Update – India’s Growth Story’ released on March 14 by the World Bank..........

• ‘Violations against Hindus are often not tracked’
  • Navtan Kumar
    Areport on human rights against the Hindus has brought to light the discrimination against the community in India and abroad.........

• Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya: a Great Hindu King of Tripura
  • Anirban R Banerjee
    Our post independent, state-sponsored politically correct History has consciously undermined the contribution of Indian Princes in building a Modern India.........

• Nothing wrong with Hindutva or Hinduness – on the contrary
  • Maria Wirth
    Is being a Hindu ok and is Hindutva not ok and even dangerous? Many Hindus seem wary to be associated with Hindutva.........

• Why Rahul Gandhi Was Left Dumbfounded By My Question
  • Prasenjit K Basu
    Why the average Indian was growing more than 1 per cent poorer than the average East Asian every year during the 40 years of Nehru family rule.........

• Raghuram Rajan’s answers on the PNB scam and controversial 20:80 rule do not pass muster
  • Opindia.com
    The media’s blue-eyed boy and former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today finally broke his silence around the PNB scam and other issues relating to it........

• Youth join paramilitary forces to fight against Maoist attacks on Bihar border
  • Rajat Rai
    The Naugarh block of the Maoist-hit Chandauli district bordering Bihar was once infamous for the biggest attack on the paramilitary.......

• Hinduism & Hindutva Response/ Book Review : Why Tharoor is against Hindutva?
  • Organiser.org
    Tharoor’s Why I am a Hindu attempts to discredit other Hindu groups and essentially divide the Hindus and make them more vulnerable to electoral manipulation and outside domination.......

• Abusive troll and leftist website’s strong claims about RSS-BJP’s ‘tussle’ get proven wrong
  • Opindia.com
    Abusive troll Swati Chaturvedi who also claims to be a journalist wrote an article on NDTV in February......

• St. Joseph’s Hospice Saga Reveals Extra-Constitutional Clout of Christian Institutions
  • Mahakrishnan
    Skeletons have literally started tumbling out of St.Joseph’s Hospice for the destitute since the morning the locals of Kanchipuram caught an ambulance escorting.......

• Farmers’ March : I am sick of commies setting the narrative, are you?
  • Sujoy Ghosh  
    Devendra Fadnavis doesn’t even have a clear majority in the Assembly. To keep his government, he must depend on Shiv Sena.......

• Indian tragedy: Muslims sell girls to foreign men
  • Ahmar Mustikhan    
    A heart-wrenching Indian tragedy. Recently, Sabiha Banu, 15, of Mangalore, was married (read sold) to Abu Bakr Al Moum, 55, of Nigeria......

• How come thousands of ISIS militants have suddenly gone missing?
  • Martin Berger      
    In recent months, American politicians have presented the public with a constant barrage of statements about various Islamic State ......

• How Syama Prasad Mookerjee Saved Bengali Hindus From Imminent Annihilation
  • Jaideep Mazumdar
    Had it not been for Syama Prasad Mookerjee, there would have been no West Bengal today........

• The ‘Acharya envoys’ who propagate Indian culture
  • Varghese K. George
    In a new initiative by the Narendra Modi government, a band of Indian officials posted to three missions in the U.S. now promote ‘Indian culture’ as part of diplomacy........

• Of Falling Statues And Vanishing Ideologies
  • Balbir Punj
    It would do no one any good if the avalanche of change that has swept through the North-east of the country is seen.......

• Stealing Shivaji: Why liberals hate the Hindu emperor but also want to make him secular
  • Rakesh Krishnan Simha  @ByRakeshSimha
    In 1925 an Indian revolutionary wrote a letter to Mohandas Gandhi, accusing the Congress leader of stifling India’s freedom movement due to his non-violent approach......

• Good Lenin or bad Lenin, India needs less Lenin
  • Rakesh Krishnan Simha  @ByRakeshSimha
    In 1908 the great Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for his demand for immediate self rule.....….

• Left politics holds JNU campus to ransom
  • Satish Kumar
    India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru called a university a temple of learning. Unfortunately....….

• Maoists’ so-called Jantana Sarkar is shrinking: Vivekanand, IGP, Bastar range
  • Shantanu Nandan Sharma
    Vivekanand, inspector-general of police of the Bastar range, where Abujhmad falls....….

• ‘The Wire’ cries foul after their hitjob on Jaitley was outed before it was published
  • Nupur J Sharma
    Leftist site ‘The Wire’, which is routinely caught on the wrong side of facts has a new grouse now: How did our story get leaked even before we published it....….

• Indira Gandhi’s 1977 pauperism tells a different story
  • G Pramod Kumar
    Certainly nobody in the Gandhi family has been as vulnerable as Robert Vadra although his assets are short change compared to the astounding wealth of other political families in the country...…..

• Aaj Tak managing editor rejects conspiracy theories about govt putting ‘pressure’ on media
  • OpIndia Staff
    Supriya Prasad, the Managing Editor of the Aaj Tak and India Today news channels, has said that he never faced any kind of pressure from the government regarding news broadcasts or running ‘favourable news’...…..

• Eight Things About Lenin That Left Does Not Want You To Know
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Lenin was deranged in the end: In 2001, a film on Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Soviet dictator was stopped from being screened at the Calcutta Film Festival..…..

• UPA govt insider reveals shocking details of how ‘Hindu terror’ bogey was maliciously manufactured
  • Opindia.com
    An explosive interview by Times Now has revealed how the then UPA government went to great lengths.…..

• Rani Abbakka: An Untold Legacy
  • M Raghuram
    Rani Abbakka is a Tuluva warrior queen who is truly the first woman freedom fighter of India.…..

• Why The Lutyens Mafia Is A Threatened Lot Today
  • Jay Bhattacharjee
    The members of this exclusive club that screams “entitlement” and “privilege” as a matter of right and heredity, are a threatened lot today, and have turned to sabotage…..

• DNA raises Hindu radicalism bogey over slum dwellers being forcefully converted to Christianity, deletes later
  • OpIndia Staff
    The DNA published a report on the alleged attempt by missionaries to lure slum dwellers into Christianity by offering them a better lifestyle.…..

• Ten Things About Periyar Dravidian Parties Don’t Want You To Know
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    E V Ramasamy (1879-1973), popularly known as EVR, is hailed as ‘Periyar’ by his followers.…..

• Jayant Sinha busts the ‘no jobs creation’ rhetoric, gives it back to Rajdeep in style
  • Opindia.com
    The India Today Conclave 2018 began with a keynote address by the former Congress President Sonia Gandhi. …..

• Sagarika Ghose abuses an author who asked Rahul Gandhi a tough question in Singapore
  • Opindia.com
    Congress President Rahul Gandhi somewhat looked like making a fool of himself in Singapore.…..

• Periyar Had Cursed Tamil. People Are Targeted For Telling The Truth, Says BJP’s H Raja
  • Swarajyamag.com
    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary H Raja is at it again. The BJP leader, who has been in the eye of a storm over his comments on Periyar statue after Lenin’s statue..…..

• How Asia rose from the devastation and debris of colonialism
  • Makarand R Paranjape
    At a time when world historiography has been preoccupied with exploring metahistorical questions on the one hand and writing microhistories on the other..…..

• Army officer scales peak, stumbles across outpost named after her dad
  • Jayanta Gupta
    A young woman lieutenant in the Indian Army, posted in Tenga, Arunachal Pradesh, was on an initiation tour recently..…..

• Watch: The best of Rahul Gandhi in Singapore
  • OpIndia.com
    After flying to Italy days before his 3 stunning moral victories in the North East elections, Rahul Gandhi flew to the other end of the world. ..…..

• Exposé on Adhia receiving ‘gifts’ proves economic downturn and curbing of civil liberties in Modi raj
  • Gaurav Leisure
    Economic experts such as film stars, columnists, sports historians, sociologists and other Marxist/pseudo-Marxist commentators have for long criticised the economic policies of the Modi government. ..…..

• Buddhism Vs Islam: Emergency In Sri Lanka And A Tinderbox South-East Asia
  • Ananth Krishna
    The Buddhist and the Islamic worlds seem to be increasingly in conflict in south and south-east Asia. In Myanmar and Sri Lanka ..…..

• Why NGOs must clean up their act
  • Minhaz Merchant @minhazmerchant
    It's been a bad few weeks for NGOs. Oxfam is still reeling from the scandal that its senior staff used prostitutes for orgies during relief work in Haiti. ..…..

• Former nun tells of sex and suffering inside Indian convent
  • Andrew Buncombe
    A former nun's tell-all story which details illicit relationships, sexual harassment and bullying in the convent where she spent three decades is causing ructions in the Catholic Church in the south Indian state of Kerala...…..

• Eight Things About Lenin That Left Does Not Want You To Know
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    1. Lenin was deranged in the end: In 2001, a film on Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Soviet dictator was stopped from being screened at the Calcutta Film Festival. ..…..

• ‘I am a proud Hindu, I don’t celebrate Eid, but government will support those who want to’, Yogi Adityanath
  • Opindia.com
    Tension ran high in Uttar Pradesh Assembly as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary’s remark...…..

• Here’s how Twitter reacted to Lenin’s statue demolition !
  • The Article
    Communist icon Lenin’s statue in Tripura’s Belonia town was demolished allegedly by BJP workers...…..

• Good Bye, Lenin! Statues of Dictators Toppled Around the World [PHOTOS]
  • David Sim
    Ukraine's second-largest city. Across Ukraine, people have torn down statues to the former Communist leader in a symbolic display of anti-Russian sentiment...…..

• This is why they cheered while ‘vandalising’ Lenin’s statue in Tripura
  • K Bhattacharjee
    Twitter erupted yesterday as a video of the demolition of a statue of Lenin at Belonia, Tripura went viral. As expected..…..

• Fearful of action by UP police, about 5500 criminals cancelled their bail: UP DGP
  • Opindia.com
    Uttar Pradesh’s Director General of Police (DGP), Om Prakash Singh was quoted by the Times of India  revealing that about 5500 criminals in the state had got their bails cancelled...…..

• Biggest non-story of the year: Our 21 million 'unwanted' girls
  • Amrit Dhillon
    I was asked last month by one of the foreign publications I write for to cover the 'story' being carried in the Indian press about the '21 million unwanted' girls in the country...…..

• Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of Lenin
  • Greg Wilford
    Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of the communist revolutionary Lenin following a government drive to rid the country of Soviet-era symbols...…..

• Stabbed, jawan fights 4 armed Maoists bare-handed, makes them flee
  • Soumitra Bose, TNN
    C-60 commando police naik 33-year-old Gomji Mattami, posted at Gadchiroli headquarters…..

• No Mr. Shekhar Gupta, you can’t malign us while tacitly supporting hate speech yourself
  • Squintneon
    We started Squint Neon in September 2017 because like most politically and socially aware youth today.…..

• An intellectual slap on the libtards
  • Ashok Chowgule
    There cannot be a better intellectual slap on the face of the libtards than the enclosed article..…..

• Church plans stir even as crackdown unearths more illegal hospices
  • Kumar Chellappan
    Even as Tamil Nadu Government has found out that  more unauthorised institutions like the St Joseph’s Hospice at Kanchipuram were operating in different places of the State.…..

• Manmohan Singh’s critics privately said he was a ‘super-cabinet secretary’ in UPA govt
  • Theprint.in
    In this excerpt from ‘Ballot: Ten Episodes that Have Shaped India’s Democracy’ author Rasheed Kidwai writes about the various battles in the UPA government...…..

• Church plans stir even as crackdown unearths more illegal hospices
  • Kumar Chellappan
    Even as Tamil Nadu Government has found out that  more unauthorised institutions like the St Joseph’s Hospice at Kanchipuram were operating in different places of the State…..

• Cultural Marxism, and how it is similar to other ‘prophet driven’ industries
  • D V Sridharan
    Let’s begin with Marxism. For most of a century, it had a craggy, bearded Prophet staring down at you from everywhere.…..

• Dear Mumbai Police, I am surprised by your response
  • Nupur J Sharma
    I write to you today as the Editor of Opindia.com. Before I start, let me put on record how much we as a team appreciate the work done by you.…..

• Journalist brutally killed in Tripura while covering clash between CPM and IPFT workers
  • Opindia.com
    Shantanu Bhowmik a 28 year old journalist working for a local news channel named Dinraat was beaten to death.…..

• Shashi Tharoor Goes Cherry-Picking: Some Reflections on Reading Why I am a Hindu
  • Divya Jhingran
    Human thinking is structured with layers upon layers of cognitive structures. Each word forms a structure that sets limits on a basic concept.…..

• The Media in Crises
  • Arun Shourie
    The US campaign of bombing erstwhile Taliban positions in Afghanistan had not been on for 10 days, and our experts began pronouncing it a failure.…..

• Aryabhatta knew about gravity before Isaac Newton: ex-ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair
  • The Economic Times
    One of the country's leading scientists and former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair today propounded the theory that some shlokas.…..

• Shashi Tharoor Goes Cherry-Picking: Some Reflections on Reading Why I am a Hindu
  • Divya Jhingran
    Human thinking is structured with layers upon layers of cognitive structures.…..

• The Media in Crises
  • Arun Shourie
    The US campaign of bombing erstwhile Taliban positions in Afghanistan had not been on for 10 days, and our experts began pronouncing it a failure..…..

• Sunday Guardian alleges shocking nexus between Lutyens babus and P Chidambaram
  • Opindia.com
    Madhav Das Nalapat, the Editor of Sunday Guardian has made shocking claims on how Karti Chidambaram..…..

• Meet the women commandos fighting Naxals in the jungles of Bastar
  • Shantanu Nandan Sharma, ET Bureau
    Jivalamari, translated from Gondi, means a place that takes your life. It almost does. Located on a hillock in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district...…..

• Jhunjhunu goes from worst sex ratio to the best in Rajasthan
  • Ambika Pandit, TNN
    The 2011 census brought Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan the ignominy of being the district with the lowest sex...…..

• Semen Lies Backfire !! Balloons Burst On Face
  • Arun Vishwanathan
    As Holi was nearing, I was more eager to look at this year’s anti-Hindu festival propaganda by media houses like Quint, Quint Neon, TheWire.in, and Scroll....…..

• Pope Francis Forgives 4,444 Pedophile Priests In Australia
  • Baxter Dmitry
    An inquiry in Sydney has uncovered evidence that Pope Francis has forgiven and covered up the crimes of 4,444 pedophile priests in Australia..…..

• Engaging to contain
  • Ram Madhav
    Trudeau government’s tacit support for pro-Khalistan elements in the name of free speech can’t be justified.…..

• Official Spokesperson's response to a query on invitation to Jaspal Atwal
  • Ministry of External Affairs
    In response to a query regarding invitation to Jaspal Atwal, the Official Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.…..

• UK-funded charity World Vision admits volunteers sexually exploited survivors of 2010 Haiti earthquake
  • Ella Wills
    UK-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted volunteers taking part in one of its relief schemes sexually and financially exploited survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.…..

• Brace Yourselves, They’re Coming To Tell You Why You Shouldn’t Play Holi
  • Bhavesh Kansara
    As India waits to play Holi, the self-appointed saviours and the new-found champions of environment have started surfacing…..