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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.

Is Religious Terrorism a product of Western Modernity?

In the 21st century there is visibly an increase...

Why was Assam’s Nellie massacre of 1983 not prevented, despite intimations of violence?

A long-buried report submitted to the state government in...

बीजेपी 441 साल बाद राणा प्रताप को जिताएगी हल्दी घाटी का युद्ध !

इतिहास की नज़र में तथ्य सर्वाधिक पवित्र होते हैं।...

“Communalisation” of Indian history around Padmavati, a fictitious character, has colonial roots: Irfan Habib

Strongly intervening in the “violent controversy" raging around the...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary

Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet...

For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence

Perhaps it’s time that we appreciate the exasperation that...

Now Rajput groups want Bhansali to change ‘Padmavati’ title

Protests over “Padmavati” took a new turn today with...

गांधी, तुम भाड़ में जाओ!

तुम्हें ने हमें लंबे समय तक परेशान किया है।...

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