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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

Image courtesy: Thinglink.comEncounters of a personal kind with a...

Secularism is a Bangladeshi Trait; We Must Stand By It

It was our undying commitment to secular values that...

Modi’s Undeclared Emergency: Academia feels the Heat

Universities Under Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi, a pithy...

An Inglorious End: The Summary Execution of Benito Mussolini

Picture Credit: WikipediaIt was on this day, 71 years...

Hindutva’s Fascist Heritage

In the 1930s Hindu nationalism borrowed from European fascism...

How caste is alive and kicking in Bengal

Photo courtesy: youthkiawaaz.comBengali middle class society is seen as...

We must become the Khudai Khidmatgars of today: Anand Patwardhan

Image: The HinduI won’t occupy this space for...

It’s A Myth That The British Raj Liberated Indian Women

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