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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.

Remembering J.B Kripalani, the Congress chief who criticised Nehru, Indira Gandhi

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Youth take out ‘Maulana Azad Virasat Paigam Yatra’ from Delhi to Haryana

Yatris distributed the pamphlets to the local inhabitants during...

Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, and national mythology – Part I

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The lesser known Maulana who sought ‘United India’ to the bitter end

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The Ghosts of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Death Still Lingers, Who’s Accountable?

The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy and their...

Never Again: Horrors of the Start of the genocidal Pogrom against Jews, 80 Yrs Ago

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The graves unseen by History: The Malabar Struggle and the history of the silent

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Trump Calls Out the Army Against the Refugee Caravan

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The graves unseen by History: The Malabar Struggle and the stories we chose to forget

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No poppies for Sikh soldiers killed by their own people

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