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112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

तिलका माँझी शहादत दिवस विशेष: भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम के पहले शहीद

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What’s missing in the teaching of Islam

There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in...

इतिहासकार इरफान हबीब ने RSS से पूछा आजादी में योगदान, करा दी गई FIR

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Remembering Safdar Hashmi and the play that changed Indian street theatre forever

Actor and playwright Sudhanva Deshpande on his years with...

In pictures: The black-and-white story of a Delhi lost in time

Narain Prasad’s images reveal an era when the Yamuna...

The books that Mattered to India’s Independent Publishers in 2016

Never mind the corporate publishing houses and their profit-and-loss...

“No Hindu Rashtra”: Nayantara Sahgal

The following statement from Nayantara Sahgal was read out...

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