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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.
When People Think of Themselves as People and “Others” as Snakes
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Secularism is a Bangladeshi Trait; We Must Stand By It
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Modi’s Undeclared Emergency: Academia feels the Heat
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Smriti Irani’s ire is baseless: Bhagat Singh’s friends saw themselves as ‘revolutionary terrorists’
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An Inglorious End: The Summary Execution of Benito Mussolini
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Hindutva’s Fascist Heritage
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Sanghis, Sex and University Students: What is it Really All About?: Ayesha Kidwai
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How caste is alive and kicking in Bengal
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We must become the Khudai Khidmatgars of today: Anand Patwardhan
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It’s A Myth That The British Raj Liberated Indian Women
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