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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.

Babri Masjid: What should Muslims do?

A section of Hindu supremacist organizations are once again...

Protests mark removal of painting depicting Malappuram Wagon Massacre

On the 97th anniversary of the Wagon Massacre a...

SC dismisses petition challenging demolitions around Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi

Last Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition praying...

Bhopal Running Away From Bhopal Gas Tragedy?

Activists have equated the Kareena Kapoor and Tiger Shroff...

Remembering V P Singh: A defender of diversity and secularism

For Singh, it was very easy and comfortable to...

V P Singh: The man who jolted to politics of dominance

Attempts have been made by people to ignore and...

When German Jews and Indian Sikhs weep together to remember a dark past

November brings back memories of fallen heroes of World...

How my Nana read the Ramayana in Urdu

Editor and Publisher Yogesh Sharma writes about the fond...

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