January Month Article

• Extremist Talks of Invading India, Forcing All Hindus to Convert and Destroy All Temples
  • Chakranews.com
    Arab-American Christian Activist Theodore Shoebat has posted a series of blogs and articles railing against Hinduism…....

• Ignoring truth that’s unsettling
  • Koenraad Elst
    Given the moralistic bombast with which the Ayodhya issue has been covered…....

• Alarming : 30,000 Indias ready to work for ISIS to wage war against India
  • Hindu Jagruti Samiti
    It’s alarming that a huge number of people in India are ready to join hands with the terror outfit ISIS.…....

• In absence of marriage law, Pakistani Hindus have no option but to embrace Islam
  • Hindu Jagruti Samiti
    There is no marriage law for the millions of Hindus living in Pakistan, a leading daily said on Friday..…..

• Minor gang-raped by Jihadi youth in Muzaffarnagar
  • Hindu Jagruti Samiti
    A 14-year-old minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by three youths at Ambeta village here, police said on Friday..…..

• Church street blast cracked, prime accused arrested: NIA
  • K. V. Aditya Bharadwaj
    The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed to have cracked the 2014 Church Street blast case and announced that Alam Jeb Afridi alias Javed Rafeeq (30).…..

• SAARC Minus X: A Constructive Approach for India’s Regional Integration
  • Mukul Asher and Keya Chaturvedi
    In essence, SAARC members should first focus on areas where mutual cooperation is beneficial, and not permit issues of politics or ideological disagreements..…..

• Winston Churchill: Britain’s Greatest Briton Left a Legacy of Global Conflict and Crimes Against Humanity
  • Garikai Chengu
    Somabhai Modi reached my residence at sharp 11 o’clock on January 3. The visit was pre-decided..…..

• What is it like to be PM Modi’s elder brother!
  • The NaMo Patrika
    Somabhai Modi reached my residence at sharp 11 o’clock on January 3. The visit was pre-decided..…..

• Tamil asst prof who filed harassment plaint axed
  • Kumar Chellappan
    A celebrated Tamil novelist, who was also an assistant professor, has been thrown out of the elite 88-year-old...…..

• Shani Shingnapur: Let’s Be Clear. Hinduism Goes Beyond Gender Equality
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Faux-feminists confuse patriarchal social stagnation with gender-specific ritual spaces. They don’t have to....…..

• Arunachal Pradesh – target of misinformation by media and senior journalists
  • Raju Das
    On 17th January 2016, several media houses carried a report saying that Arunachal Pradesh Governor J P Rajkhowa had cited ‘cow slaughter’ as one sign of law and order collapse in the state....…..

• Rajdeep Sardesai should do “better research” says HRD Minister Smriti Irani
  • Opindia.com
    Ever since “Dalit” Rohith Vemula’s “suicide” hit the news cycle, student suicides have become the favourite topic of discussion for media....…..

• Muslim doctor and sister helped convict pro-Isis hate preachers on Oxford Street
  • Kate Ng
    The preachers had set up a stall to pass out leaflets bearing the Isis logo....…..

• India's minorities need to stop fearing RSS
  • Dr David Frawley
    The Sangh Parivar has been a subject of probably greater distortion than any other group in the country......…..

• KCHR to document Indian board games tradition
  • The News Minute
    KCHR would provide necessary support for systematic conservation to academics and other informed public.....…..

• Stormtroopers At Shani Shingnapur
  • Mayuresh Didolkar,  @freentglty
    The famous British mountaineer George Mallory is supposed to have replied the question “why did you want to climb Mt Everest?” with a cryptic “because it’s there”.......…..

• Ten reasons why Modi was disliked in 2015
  • Major General,  Mrinal Suman
    Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014. During his 18 months in office, he has earned the displeasure of many segments of the society. Here are ten reasons why he is disliked......…..

• 'Nehruvian’ Socialism
  • Bibek Debroy
    Nehru was the slave of several fecund economists. But his economic legacy is often unkindly blamed for much that occurred after his death, in the late 1960s and 70s.....…..

• Cooperate with probe or face arrest, Supreme Court tells Teesta Setalvad
  • Amit Anand Choudhary | TNN
    The Supreme Court on Thursday directed social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband to cooperate....…..

• Cologne sex attacks: 'Safe zone' for women planned ahead of city's carnival
  • Justin Huggler
    There are concerns the large crowds could leave women vulnerable to the sort of attacks seen on New Year’s Eve....…..

• Grievances Piling Up, PM Modi Demands Action Against Officials
  • Rahul Shrivastava
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked for strong action against officials in the customs and excise department in view of people's complaints against it, sources told NDTV....…..

• Dalit students allege caste bias at JNU
  • Manash Pratim Gohain | TNN
    Days after a PhD scholar threatened to commit suicide if he did not get clearance for a one-year extension of his senior research fellowship...…..

• Man arrested for writing facebook post on Tipu Sultan. Freedom of Expression not discussed
  • OpIndia Staff
    On 26 January 2016, while India is celebrating the Republic Day, Manjunath Mudugal, an ITI student from Koppala (Karnataka)...…..

• Why Koenraad Elst And Rajiv Malhotra Are Unfair In Their Criticism Of Vivekananda
  • Saurav Basu
    Neither is Vivekananda glorified without reason and nor was he overawed by the West’s interpretation of itself....…..

• Where no woman is safe
  • Pronab Mondal
    A Trinamul Congress office and a thriving hooch den happily co-existed and police never came in the way until a college student’s brutalised body was....…..

• Dialogue With Pakistan Is Not India's Necessity
  • Tufail Ahmad
    According to a tweet by Pakistani journalist Omar R. Quraishi, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21...…..

• Piketty Stands On Rickety Foundations In India: Soak-The-Rich Is Not The Answer
  • R Jagannathan
    Thomas Piketty’s thesis stands on rickety legs in India. Put simply,he doesn’t know what he is talking about when it comes to India....…..

• Of course Hindus won’t be thrown into hell
  • Maria Wirth
    Some time ago, a news item caught my attention: Dalit Christians had filed a complaint with the United Nations against...…..

• A Hindu Ascetic from Austria
  • Maria Wirth
    Today it is not uncommon for westerners to come to India for spiritual inspiration. Even big-wigs like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have come....…..

• Nehru’s aide kept key Netaji files
  • The Pioneer
    A close confidant of the Nehru family, Mohammed Yunus, had told the Khosla Commission of enquiry that several files on Netaji might have been destroyed or gone missing...…..

• Modi bashers scoff at PM’s tribute to Rohith
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    Last Friday, during a visit to Varanasi — his parliamentary constituency — Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave vent to the distress shared by all Indians over the suicide of Rohith Vemula..…..

• Path to perdition
  • Irfan Husain
    The latest terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda is one more bloody event in a seemingly unending campaign against innocent young Pakistanis....…..

• Pakistan’s 9/11: Education Is More Dangerous than Illiteracy; Most Terrorists Are Educated Where Textbooks Inculcate Jihad and Righteous War
  • Khaled Ahmed
    First the US had its 9/11, when terrorists located in Pakistan plotted an aerial attack on the World Trade Centre and changed America forever.....…..

• India is tolerant, I’m proud to be Indian — and I’m still music’s original heart-throb: Zakir Hussain
  • Sugandha Indulkar
    Zakir Hussain is India’s iconic tabla maestro. Speaking with Sugandha Indulkar, Hussain discussed the highvolume tolerance debate....…..

• India’s perennial soft state: Talks despite terror send message to Pakistan to hit us harder
  • Yashwant Sinha
    ‘Has Pakistan arrested Masood Azhar?’ ‘Will Pakistan arrest him?’ Those were the concerns of Indians.....…..

• Police probe video on boy, check for ‘communal’ angle
  • Chandan Haygunde
    A female Islamic professor has claimed that Allah has allowed Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to 'humiliate' them, report stated.......…..

• Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them, claims Islamic professor
  • Zeenews.india.com
    A female Islamic professor has claimed that Allah has allowed Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to 'humiliate' them, report stated.......…..

• Hyderabad University Suicide – Detailed Report
  • Niticentral Staff
    We feel greatly saddened to briefly report the unfortunate suicide committed by one of our research students Mr. Rohit Vemula......…..

• The Truth about Tolerant India
  • Prakash Katoch
    The question of whether India is tolerant or intolerant has been headlined in news in recent times, particularly with heated debates on particular TV channels......…..

• Rohith’s father blows the lid over his caste, says his son was “murdered”, attacks vulture politics
  • Opindia.com
    Rohith Vemula’s unfortunate suicide has become a hot topic of debate in India. It has been spun into a political battle of Dalits vs Non-Dalits......…..

• CIA leads help Indian agencies bust ISIS cells
  • Rajshekhar Jha | TNN
    Till not too long ago, the exact presence of Islamic State (ISIS) operatives was being debated.....…..

• Anwar Shaikh on Islamic terror
  • Dr. Koenraad Elst
    As a young Muslim in Lahore, Anwar Shaikh took part in the Partition violence against Sikhs and Hindus....…..

• Afghan Envoy On Ties With India: ‘No Country Can Reverse This Friendly Relationship’
  • Shitanshu Shekhar Shukla
    Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India, is a soldier for development. Needless to say, he is in the line of the Taliban’s fire...…..

• Sitaram Goel: Modern India’s Greatest Intellectual Kshatriya
  • David Frawley
    Sitaram was writing from the frontlines of the battle, not from a convenient view on the sidelines..…..

• Sad Suicide of Rohith Vemula Shows Where The Virulent Politics of Caste Hatred Is Headed
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    One can empathise with the desolation the parents of the late Rohith Vemula must be feeling as news came of his suicide..…..

• Rohith’s suicide note: What the leftists don’t want to read
  • Rahul Narayan
    Before moving to my opinion, just read this quote from Carl Sagan, like whom Rohith Vemula wanted to become, a writer...…..

• Mohammed Nisham guilty of murdering security guard Chandrabose
  • Dhanya Rajendran
    Mohammed Nisham has been held guilty of murdering security guard Chandrabose, the Thrissur Sessions Court held on Wednesday...…..

• Sad Suicide of Rohith Vemula Shows Where The Virulent Politics of Caste Hatred Is Headed
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    One can empathise with the desolation the parents of the late Rohith Vemula must be feeling as news came of his suicide..…..

• Two temples in Kerala where women worship and are worshipped
  • Thenewsminute.com
    The entry of women in the Sabarimala temple -one of the holiest pilgrimage destinations in the country.…..

• Why India won't remember the day Kashmiri Pandits were left to die
  • Rashneek Kher, @Rashneek
    Not one person has been convicted, leave alone punished for the massacre of more than a thousand Hindus of the Valley..…..

• Lotus Root in Houston
  • Sunanda Vashisht
    Standing in a Chinese store in Houston few days ago, I heard the same words again..…..

• Dalit Emancipation: A nationalist view
  • Punarvasu Parekh
    “The anti-Dalit prejudice culminating in untouchability is a sin of Hindu society and the remedy too must come from within..…..

• Kerala Officer Facing Action For Supporting PM Modi Gets Court Relief
  • A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Anindita Sanyal
    The Supreme Court has put on hold the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Kerala government.…..

• Pakistanis are basically Hindus, Pakistani lady scholar admits
  • Ram Kumar Ohri (IPS; retd)
    A brave Pakistani lady scholar boldly states what many Indians won't..…..

• Denialistan: Top 10 excuses Pakistan trots out after terrorist attacks on India
  • Chidanand Rajghatta
    Pakistan's long history of bleeding India with a thousand cuts follows a familiar pattern. Deny, defy, and mollify are the main aspects of its terrorism policy.…..

• Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 2
  • Koenraad Elst
    Sita Ram Goel rarely speculated, he dealt in facts. His closeness to basic facts was to provide a refreshing contrast with the free-for-all of history-writing and wishful political analysis by the Nehruvian secularists.…..

• The Top Media Lies of the year 2015
  • Opindia.com
    Without a doubt, this was the biggest lie which was spread by Indian MSM in 2015. This major narrative was backed by smaller lies which helped buttress their argument..…..

• Pakistanis are basically Hindus, Pakistani lady scholar admits
  • Ram Kumar Ohri (IPS; retd)
    A brave Pakistani lady scholar boldly states what many Indians won't..…..

• Yet another attempt at peace with Pakistan
  • Livemint.com
    Islamabad’s actions after Pathankot are a charade that has been played before..…..

• Police Jobs As Wedding Gift For Former Maoists Who Surrendered For Love
  • Siddharth Ranjan Das
    There was band, bajaa and baarat. The wedding tent was agog with activities. The drummers played to the traditional beat..…..

• Our apologists made a romantic hero out of a cold-blooded terrorist, yet again
  • Rahul Raj
    Masood Azhar is back in news — this time because of confusions over his “protective custody” by the Pakistan police counter-terrorism department after the Pathankot attack.…..

• Flawed inheritance
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    It is by now sufficiently clear that the West Bengal government's ostrich-like attitude to the vandalism witnessed…..

• Why historians like Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel are under appreciated by mainstream media and intelligentsia?
  • Neelotpal Mukhopadhyay
    The mainstream media and the academia have been dominated by people, often called the Eminent Historians who are against any historians who debunk the pseudo-secular myths fabricated in the last few decades.…..

• Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 3
  • Koenraad Elst
    Clash of Civilizations The now-fashionable expression “clash of civilizations” was already in use in India.…..

• Angela Merkel under pressure as Cologne violence cases rise to 516
  • The Times of India
    Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants..…..

• Everything You Wanted To Know About Malda Violence, But Were Too Secular To Ask
  • Arihant Pawariya
    Mamata Bannerjee’s refusal to crackdown on anti-national elements and rioters in Malda doesn’t augur well for the security of West Bengal as well as India..…..

• Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 1
  • Koenraad Elst
    This is the first part of the author’s essay in a volume he has edited.…..

• Prithvi Narayan Shah: The Great Gorkha Emperor
  • Anirban Banerjee
    When I was a young boy my father used to talk to me about various.…..

• The Muslim Takeover of West Bengal
  • Janet Levy
    Riots, restrictions on speech and religion, and the takeover of politics and law enforcement are just a few of the unwelcome changes that can be expected in non-Muslim societies as Muslim immigrants increase in number.…..

• Taming India’s Elite
  • Sanjeev Sanyal
    It has been more than a year and a half since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power on a promise to build a new India..…..

• Aamir Khan Deserves What He Got
  • Ravi Shanker Kapoor
    It is time that the Bharatiya Janata Party recognized that that appeasement—whether of Muslims, antagonistic intellectuals, or unscrupulous celebrities—is wrong in principle as well in practice...…..

• Exposing the inner world of a recent Lutyens' cocktail party
  • Minhaz Merchant, @minhazmerchant
    Suleiman and Anwar meet Delhi elite and discuss Pathankot terror attack, Odd-Even rule, National Herald case and more..…..

• Two Madurai students in hospital after principal caned them, cops claim no parent complained
  • Thenewsminute.com
    Madurai police claim that even after two minor girls had to be admitted to hospital after.…..

• Whether I am brand ambassador or not, India will remain incredible: Aamir Khan
  • Ibnlive.com
    Bollywood star Aamir Khan is no longer the face of the 'Incredible India' campaign as the superstar's contract had expired.…..

• Take firm and immediate action against those responsible for Pathankot terror attack, PM Narendra Modi tells Nawaz Sharif
  • Sachin Parashar, TNN
    Amid the sense of betrayal, as BJP spokespersons have put it, being felt by the government.…..

• Pathankot: How Our Human Rights Brigade Justify Terror
  • Mayuresh Didolkar  @freentglty
    In the first half of Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” the enigmatic Henry Ducard (Liam Neeson) instructs the young Bruce Wayne..…..

• Exposing Mehdi Hasan’s Accomplices
  • Kalavai Venkat
    This article is a continuation of Responding to Mehdi Hasan – How Hindus Should Engage Their Opponents..…..

• “First Day First Show”: Did Odd-Even work? and how Media played its part
  • Opindia.com
    Call it a novel idea, call it “Tughlaq-esque”, Delhi’s Odd-Even plan caught the eye of many in India and most on social media.…..

• “I’m The Biggest Victim Of Intolerance”
  • Surajit Dasgupta
    She is a symbol of free expression, defiance and sheer courage. She is also perhaps the one Asian woman whom Islamist fundamentalists…..

• JNU Students’ Union gags Baba Ramdev : Shocking Intolerance to Diversity of Views
  • Dr. Bal Ram Singh
    As we engage the world on the wisdom and practical utility of Vedanta and related concepts to address many of the challenging issues facing the humanity…..

• 400 women of Congress Women Cell will go to Shani Shingnapur temple. But, why?
  • Upananda Brahmachari
    They never venture to any Mosque for the entry of women there….