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Mughals deleted from curriculum: history as political tool
The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually. Apart from other things it has focused on ‘Indian Knowledge systems’ and ‘Indian traditions’. The changes in the History/Social Sciences...
State Failure to protect lives during 1992-1993 communal violence, compensation for kin of missing persons, dormant cases to be revived: SC
One of the root causes of their suffering was the failure of the State Government to maintain law and order says the November 4 order of the Supreme Court
1984 anti-Sikh pogrom: The long cover-up
From the pages of ‘Communalism Combat’, a reminder that denial of justice to victims of mass violence has been the norm in India
Fireworks and Firearms: The Festival of Lights in the Mughal Court
"With the aroma of honey and almond wafting through the heavy air of decadence, the kufuri-shama casting silhouettes of a glorious past, and Nazeer Akbarabadi’s nazms resonating with a sense of coexistence, the last Mughal Diwalis were a curious confluence of tears and laughter."
Raavan Islamised! Purging the complex Ramayan text evident in attacks by far right on Adipurush
AK Ramanujan’s, Three Hundred Ramayans, extracted from The Collected Essays by the author and published in Communalism Combat in May 2008 (Year 14, No 131) actually told the epic’s spectacular and varied journey through the ages
Gandhi as “evil” (Mahiasura) is a time-tested narrative for all hues of Hindu communalists
The latest depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Mahiasura’ at the All India’s Hindu Mahasaha’s puja pandal in Kolkatta is a time-tested narrative of Hindu communalists who, as Teesta Setalvad has writen, regurgitate this narrative portraying Gandhi as different forms of “evil”
Shaheed Bhagat Singh: a fighter for freedom who dreamed and died for a world full of equality & justice
The rapid advance of the struggle led by him from the margins to reach millions remains a great inspiration for activists even today, 90 years after his hanging
1986 Saka Nakodar Case: Long-awaited justice as Punjab & Haryana HC orders the formation of SIT
The HC order instructing the Punjab Government to investigate the missing report of the Justice Gurnam Sing Commission Report, bringing relief to the families of the four killed in unlawful police firing over three decades ago
Journalists Remember Martyred Scribe Mohammad Baqar who Covered 1857 Revolt
Due to his journalistic activities, Maulvi Baqar was tied to the mouth of a large gun and blown to bits at Delhi Gate, said one of the speakers.
Visionary Gorbachev’s noble ideas failed because he ignored the deceit, duplicity and dangers of imperialism
History will remember the great distance between what he sought and what he achieved, and we must learn from this
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