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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.
“History can never be used to justify faith”: Romila Thapar
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Ajeeb Aadmi Tha Woh: Remembering Kaifi Azmi on his 17th death anniversary
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