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Sab ka Malik Ek: Sai Baba and pluralism within Hinduism

The attack on, or antipathy with Sai Baba of Shirdi has much to do with his universal appeal

The book on Lenin that Bhagat Singh was reading before he was Hanged

The recent incidents of vandalizing of the statues of...

Reading Mussolini’s Doctrine of Fascism in 21st Century India

Fascism has, of late, become the hot topic for...

Remembering defender of secularism who died for standing up for people’s unity

This month marks 30 years of the assassination of...

Amidst the Prasar Bharati-Smriti Irani imgroblio, listen to Mahatma Gandhi’s only speech delivered at Broadcasting House in 1947

Recently, several reports were published highlighting the rift between Prasar Bharati...

Syndicated Hinduism

This essay has been extracted from The Historian and her...

Controversy erupts in BHU after cultural event glorifies Nathuram Godse

A new controversy erupted in the Banaras Hindu University...

Love Letters like no other. Letters from Savitribai to Jyotiba

Acclaimed actors Joy Sengupta and Tannishtha Chatterjee read out the...

RSS Appropriation of the Indian Freedom Struggle is Baseless

An ‘army’ that never fought for Independence is busy,...

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