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Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy
Scholar of modern India with a path breaking approach to research and his discipline, historian Sumit Sarkar transformed how modern Indian history was understood, bringing ordinary people and their experiences to the centre of historical scholarship
Battleground Bengal: Communal hues grow darker
From rath yatras, to pitting deities, there’s nothing the BJP won’t do to consolidate its vote bank of supremacists
Dismiss false charges against farmers: SKM to President on Daman Pratirodh Diwas
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Black flags welcome Modi in Assam
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All-Punjab Anganwadi Workers’ Union to hold a protest march on March 4
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Siddique Kappan’s co-accused arrested based on intelligence inputs: UP Gov’t tells Allahabad HC
They were arrested by UP police enroute to Hathras and charged for sedition and raising funds for terror acts under UAPA
Truth has been hijacked to serve political interests: Brinda Karat on Delhi violence
On Tuesday, the Left organisation remembered the atrocities suffered by residents of Northeast Delhi and condemned the central government for stifling dissent.
Mob Lynching in 2020: Misleading Exception than a Norm
Excerpts from a piece that appeared originally in Secular Perspective, February 16-28, 2021 edition
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Gurmukh Singh: Beaten but not broken
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