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Disclosure and transparency from the RSS may finally expose decades-old ambiguities

The author, a historian and keen documentalist of the far right argues that if the RSS is compelled into legal transparency and accountability, murky details from the past could well tumble out of its century old existence

No end to communal violence in Bihar: A report on Sitamarhi

Without communal polarization, anti-Muslim hate, and Hindu consolidation behind...

Outcry after Toronto’s Consul General of India speaks at HSS event

Ambassador Dinesh Bhatia, Consul General of India in Toronto,...

34 years and counting: No justice for victims of 1984 Sikh genocide

For the last 34 years, Indian political outfits have...

How a Supremacist Govt Can Subvert the Constitution

Given the firm and secular orientation of the Indian...

Muslims flee UP village after police books 200 men under UAPA

The police have arrested 19 people from Khair and...

Insaaf (Justice) – A short story

Rehabilitated Survivors, Litho    Image Credit: Sushant Guha"Is anyone there?""Is...

Twenty-five years later – No justice for the 1984 survivors

These as analyses of the 1984 anti Sikh genocidal...

Opinion: Is the end of the Indian democratic-secular polity here?

The President and PM don’t talk to the media...

Reforming the Faith: Indonesia’s battle for the soul of Islam

Nahdlatul Ulama, with 94 million members the world’s largest...

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