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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.

Prof. K N Panikkar’s call to observe History Week in India

Historiography appears to be under threat in India and...

View from Bangladesh: Three million ways to die in the East

When does a nation become truly independent?Did we become...

We, the People of India, are markedly absent in our national anthem

Every once in a while, it dawns on an...

Fact Check: The RSS Had No Role in India’s Freedom Struggle

 The role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in...

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...

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