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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
Puducherry: Will Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan seek President’s Rule?
Chief Minister V Narayanasamy resigned after the Congress government lost its majority on Monday
I feel choked, I have become part of the choking: TM Krishna
In an open letter, the noted musician, urges against staying quiet amidst growing injustice
IMA questions Health Minister’s support to Ramdev’s Coronil
The Association said it was surprised that the Health Minister himself who is a modern medicine doctor by qualification is promoting a drug
YSR Congress sweeps Panchayat polls in AP
Jagan’s popularity ensures his party wins in all the panchayats that went to polls in Pulivendula
Unnao reports: Twitter handles of Barkha Dutt’s portal, 7 others booked
Others accused are, Janjagran Live, Aazad Samaj Party spokesperson Suraj Kumar Boudh, Nilim Dutta, Vijay Ambedkar, Abhay Kumar Azad, Rahul Diwakar, Nawab Satpal Tanwar
87 US groups declare support for farmers’ struggle in India
American organisations of farmers, and farm and food justice networks and other groups issued a solidarity statement in support of the historic peasant protests in India
Battleground Bengal: From bomb blasts to ‘bandobast’
Election dates not announced, yet security forced to be deployed in the poll bound state
How to turn a city ‘right wing’ friendly?
Take a 'bad', and rename it to a 'puram’; Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad will soon be renamed Narmadapuram
West Bengal court summons Amit Shah over a criminal defamation case
A defamation case was filed by TMC MP and nephew of CM Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee
India needs to reject the ‘politics of ‘brand’
Analysing the impact of celebrities joining politics, in light of E Shreedharan’s entry into Kerala BJP
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