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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.

34 years and counting: No justice for victims of 1984 Sikh genocide

For the last 34 years, Indian political outfits have...

How a Supremacist Govt Can Subvert the Constitution

Given the firm and secular orientation of the Indian...

Opinion: Why is the world silent on the 1984 Sikh massacre?

The torture faced by Sikhs in 1984 finds no...

Insaaf (Justice) – A short story

Rehabilitated Survivors, Litho    Image Credit: Sushant Guha"Is anyone there?""Is...

Twenty-five years later – No justice for the 1984 survivors

These as analyses of the 1984 anti Sikh genocidal...

An Open Letter to Sardar Patel: Medha Patkar

As mass displacement accompanies the unveiling of Sardar Patel's...

Statue of Unity: Sardar would have been “uncomfortable” seeing so many laws violated

In a sharp critique ahead of Prime Minister Narendra...

The Mahatma on Celluloid

How did cinema enhance Gandhi's impact on the ordinary...

Seasons of Violence

Sometimes, memories stacked away for long, come tumbling out....

Modi’s Salutes to Bose’s Azad Hind Govt Covers Up Hindutva’s Betrayal of INA

Does prime minister, Narendra Modi's commemoration of the Provisional...

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