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Government’s Gold schemes and whether they are a threat to Gold in Temples

Aashish Chandorkar - 8 December, 2015

The chances of the government “taking away the temple gold by deceit” are overstated and border on paranoia.

News Reports

Top Lies spread by Indian Media in November 2015

Gaurav - 7 December, 2015

Big Lies 1. 27 November 2015: IndiaTimes - Prime Minister Narendra Modi Caught Sleeping During Parliament Session We had written on this in more detail here. Indiatimes...

News Reports

“Rising intolerance” of another kind; privilege motion against BJD MP Jay Panda for his opinions

OpIndia Staff - 4 December, 2015

MPs belonging to the “tolerant” parties have filed a privilege motion against Mr. Panda for his views on powers of Rajya Sabha.

Interviews

R Jagannathan on why he removed his article on Arun Jaitley and his new innings with Swarajya

Editorial Desk - 3 December, 2015

Former Editor-in-Chief of Firstpost talks about the past controversies and future plans of Swarajya.

News Reports

Actor Piyush Mishra rejects “growing intolerance” clamor, blames left for maligning Hindus

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2015

Mishra said that communal divide had always existed in the country and everyone, including Congress and Left, had only worked to widen it.

Opinions

As PM Modi talks ‘Climate Justice’ in Paris, Jairam Ramesh denigrates India’s position in COP21

Vibha Sekhar - 3 December, 2015

Calls India moralistic, argumentative and regressive in an interview with New York Times

News Reports

Media Apathy towards Chennai Floods

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2015

Media's response to #ChennaiFloods, Apathy to Incompetence

Culture and History

Series | Decoding Indian Belief Systems: Does Hinduism believe in one God or 33 crore Gods?

Guest Author - 2 December, 2015

While the texts might have meant 33 Supreme Gods (including elements of nature and the abstract aspects of the self), they have been lost in translation and many Indians since then believe that Hinduism has 33 crore Gods.

News Reports

National Anthem row: petty fight between two individuals hyped by TV and social media

Guest Author - 1 December, 2015

Media and Social Media spiced up a small fight between two groups as a national issue without verifying facts or full story.

News Reports

Newspaper draws piggy bank to show ISIS funding, Muslim groups attack it as pig is “unislamic”

OpIndia Staff - 30 November, 2015

Marathi newspaper Lokmat wrote an article on how ISIS receives funding. It received attacks and an FIR.

News Reports

“Tolerant” people force Literature Festival organizer to quit as they didn’t like his views

OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2015

Writers calling themselves as “liberals” and “tolerant” force Vikram Sampath, Founder Director of Bangalore Literature Festival, to quit.

News Reports

Tools Indian Media uses: “Mainstreaming”, “Mean World Syndrome” and “Agenda Setting”

OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2015

An understanding into what tools media employs

Politics

An appraisal discussion amid growing intolerance

NR Nigam - 25 November, 2015

A satirical appraisal of Intolerance in India

Entertainment

Raveena Tandon threatened and abused by Journalists and Trolls

OpIndia Staff - 25 November, 2015

Intolerance to opposing views is rising in India

News Reports

Shramdaan for Swachh Bharat: A Citizen’s Initiative (23-25 November)

OpIndia Staff - 22 November, 2015

Group of individuals are planning to unite, collaborate and clean more than 35 cities of India. Social Media is playing a vital role in such initiatives.

Social Media

Arvind Kejriwal hugged Lalu Yadav, social media made a sweet deal out of it

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2015

Social media suddenly became very creative and funny after they saw Arvind Kejriwal hugging Lalu Prasad Yadav

News Reports

Madrassas are a threat to liberty: Tufail Ahmad at India Ideas Conclave 2015

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2015

Tufail Ahmad argues that Indian Muslims can't be reformed unless they reject Madrssas and provide education of science and mathematics to their kids

News Reports

From Dadri to Haryana to Manipur, how stories about crimes against Dalits and Minorities have panned out

OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2015

Just like "Church attacks" the initial stories of attacks on dalits and minorities are fizzling out

News Reports

Pakistan is the original “Islamic State”, much before ISIS: Tarek Fatah at India Ideas Conclave 2015

OpIndia Staff - 17 November, 2015

Tarek Fatah tears into the Idea of Pakistan - an idea that is incompatible with modern democracy.

News Reports

Subramanian Swamy’s allegations against Rahul Gandhi, and the other things they reveal

OpIndia Staff - 16 November, 2015

Swamy's fresh allegations against Rahul Gandhi

Opinions

A JNU student speaks: I hope one day my Alma Mater stops being “a communist hell-hole”

OpIndia Staff - 16 November, 2015

Stories from JNU reveal what the university has become.

News Reports

Does Smriti Irani’s HRD ministry have plans to regulate private IIT coaching centres?

Gaurav - 13 November, 2015

When deliberations become recommendations and recommendations become HRD Ministry plans

News Reports

Anti-Modi group refuses to apologize for distorting “Om” into Nazi symbol

OpIndia Staff - 12 November, 2015

Instead of offering apology or expressing regret, the group says that “the image was chosen carefully and deliberately”.

Culture and History

Series | Decoding Indian Belief Systems: Is this world just a dream?

Guest Author - 12 November, 2015

The purpose of the lives of the Indian philosophers was the exploration of the eternal truth. And the eternal truth was not to be found in the world outside, but the world within.

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