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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
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Defiling of Maulana Azad’s statue symbolizes the fall of composite Indian ethos
What a sad state of affairs in West Bengal,...
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...
86th Martyrdom Anniversary: Hindutva Gang’s Documented Hatred for Martyrs, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev
This 23rd March (2018) is the 86th anniversary of...
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...
With ‘Clean Up’ Plans around Gyanvapi Masjid, Lakhs Being Siphoned in ‘Compensation’, Activists Fear an ‘Ayodhya’ like Demolition in Varanasi
Anoop Shramik and several citizens have been watching the...
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