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Mughals deleted from curriculum: history as political tool

The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually. Apart from other things it has focused on ‘Indian Knowledge systems’ and ‘Indian traditions’. The changes in the History/Social Sciences...

Socialist and Free: Cuba 57 years later

Cuban President Fidel Castro during an address to the...

Babur on Hindustan: Excerpts from the Babur-Nama

  Four days ago, December 26 was the death anniversary...

The Evils of Caste

 We reproduce below excerpts from the work of one...

Intellectualism in Peril

Writers stage a demonstration against increasing intolerance, New Delhi,...

Ismat versus the World

  BJP Government Purging Plurality and Diversity from Textbooks   My grandmother...

Art Speaks : From Togetherness comes Greatness

As the idea of a unified, secular India appears...

Ambedkar against Hindu Rashtra

  Until 1992, December 6 was remembered as ‘Parinirvan Divas’...

The Mob within Indian Democracy

  When the editors of Communalism Combat asked us to...

Culture and what it tells us about our Past

 It is indeed an honour for me to have...

What Secularism is and Where It Needs to Be Headed

In speaking about Indian society and the secular, let...

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