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51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’
The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.
“Abused for my journalism” – a chronicle of online hate
Neha Dixit received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for...
Watch documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan on ABVP’s history of violence
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The activist-filmmaker was speaking at a protest in Mumbai.Around...
Hard Ways of Lucidity – Thinking About the Crisis in the University: Prasanta Chakravarty
As I see it, university spaces are being assaulted...
Curfew in Lakhimpur after violence over objectionable video
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Curfew has been imposed in Lakhimpur city following clashes...
A Fan’s Open Letter to Sehwag
Veeru, what suits the ABVP, does that suit you?Sehwag...
For the BJP Now & Before, Invoking the Communal Divide has been at the Core of Its Electoral Politics
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Teesta Setalvad, talks to Newsclick on communal politics of BJP...
Dear Journalists, Please be Objective; Acknowledge that the ABVP Was More Violent at the Ramjas Protest
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Must-watch: video messages for Gurmehar from across the border!
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Trolls at best, bullies at worst: what the hounding of Gurmehar Kaur tells us
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