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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.

Who is Sant Ravidas and why are his devotees agitating? Pardeep Attri provides background

On August 10th, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), on...

Kashmir Blackout: In Conversation with Anuradha Bhasin

After the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of...

History, Mythology and India’s Syncretic Past

Writer and academic Madhavi Menon, in the first part...

The unsual story of the Friends Vohra Cricket Team

It was another time in this great land when...

Seeing History the Right Side Up

Excerpts from Early IndiansThe following are excerpts from the Epilogue to...

Remembering Ustad Bismillah Khan on his death anniversary

Today is the 13th death anniversary of Ustad Bismillah...

Police disrupt a press conference on communal harmony in Ayodhya

Members of Sarva Dharam Sadbhav Trust were stopped from...

Remembering another era of lynchings and listening to “Strange Fruit”

Billie Holiday's 1959 performance of "Strange Fruit." was recorded...

An Essay for Our Times: Diversity and Indian Nationalism

Diversity & nationalism are complementary and not antagonistic to...

6,000 miles away, son sees father in Kashmir on TV

Ever since the unilateral decision of the Government of...

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