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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.
Real History: Gandhi’s Murder, Godse & the RSS
Recently, (April 2023), the NCERT decided to make many...
An Inglorious End: The Summary Execution of Benito Mussolini
78 years ago, on this day, Benito Mussolini of Italy met with an inglorious end. In 2016 Sabrangindia had posted this story. Towards an understanding of history, we are re-posting it today--Editors
Did the RSS want Partition? An interview with Dr DR Goyal for Communalism Combat, October 1994
In this interview for Communalism Combat, 29 years ago, Dr DR Goyal, a member of the organization in his youth explains why he left and how poisonous RSS propaganda accelerated the movement for Pakistan
Eid Mubarak: Mussalmans & a United Nation- India
First published on: 11 Nov 2016The Musalmans and a United...
To Ahilya Rangnekar, an intrepid revolutionary, April 19, on her death anniversary
Today April 19, is the death anniversary of Comrade Ahilya Rangnekar. Her birth centenary year began on July 6, 2022 and will end on July 8, 2023. This article was first published in 'People's Democracy' and 'Loklahar', and in the CPI-M Marathi weekly 'Jeewanmarg' last year in July 2022.
Mughals Won’t Disappear From History Just Because Sangh Wishes so: Irfan Habib
In a special conversation with NewsClick, historian, Irfan Habib said that after the changes, the image of India will be tarnished in front of the world.
Hate Watch: BJP MLA demands demolition of Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar, willing to donate one year’s salary to have temples built on those...
This comes just after the NCERT removed chapters on the Mughal Empire from class 12 history books
Maliana acquittals 36 years after 72 Muslims massacred in cold blood, abysmal failure of justice, substantive & procedural
The acquittals took place despite directions by the High Court being seized of the matter since 2021 where the issue raised is of crucial documents including the FIR and other evidence had “gone missing”, of strict and fair procedures that need to be followed; this 2021 legal intervention by a journalist Qurban Ali, who covered the cold blooded massacre in 1987 and Vibhuti Narain Rai, an IPS officer who, as SP Ghaziabad had filed the FIR in the Hashimpura carnage the day before, in the High Court will now be heard with the judgement of acquittal being passed without completion of trial procedure
Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
Freedom from Communalism & Religious Intolerance was Bhagat Singh’s Ideal, Never Hindu Rashtra
Hindu Communalists have forever sought to appropriate the young and fiery martyr in Goebbellsian ways perpetuating lies and falsehoods that include falsely promoting February 14 (Valentine’s Day) as his Death Anniversary rather than March 23, when he was actually hanged
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