Category: Distortions, Misrepresentations about India

Let us blow up Khajuraho…

By now most, if not all, of you must have read about the shameful and disgusting incidents of molestations of young women in Mumbai and New Delhi on New Year’s Eve… What shocked me...

Of Godhra and Gujarat

*** CAUTION: Long Post *** This post comprises two separate articles from Shri Arvind Lavakare which I am reproducing in full below. They are from 2004 and 2006 respectively and offer food for thought,...

Forgetting History: Delhi’s “Iron Pillar”

I recently stumbled on this news-item about the development of a new type of corrosion-resistant iron by Prof Balasubramaniam and one of his colleagues at IIT, Kanpur (emphasis mine): …Indian metallurgists have developed a...

Is India now officially “Hindu”?

…Wall Street Journal thinks so. And if the eminent WSJ says so (in a title, no less), it must be true, right? During last weekend, came across this half-baked opinion passing off as a...