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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.

How Howard Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to the civil rights movement

Director Martin Doblmeier’s new documentary, “Backs Against the Wall: The...

Day after reenacting Gandhi Assassination, Hindu Mahasabha website Hacked!

A day after Hindu Mahasabha leader Puja Shakun Pandey...

Hindu Mahasabha burns Gandhi’s effigy, garlands Nathuram Godse

A video, showing Mahasabha’s National Secretary Puja Shakun Pandey...

Gandhi’s Assassination – Much More Than Just a Murder

Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, was a...

Mumbaikars march in silence to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi

On the occasion of the 71st Death Anniversary of...

Gandhi or Godse, India must Decide

This piece published in Communalism Combat in October 2000...

The First Attempt: Bomb thrown at Pune at Gandhi on June 25,1934

Contrary to popular belief, there were many failed attempts...

Firebrand Hindi fiction writer Krishna Sobti no more

The acclaimed author was known for writing about issues...

The Untold Story of Harappa in the words of Kanch Ilaiah

In this poem, activist and scholar Kancha Ilaiah traces...

Social reformer Vakkom Moulavi not given due acknowledgement in Kerala: Sunil P Ilayidom

The reform movement carried out by Vakkom Abdulqader Moulavi...

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