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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.
Why Ambedkar rejected, outright Gandhi’s views on Temple entry
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Image: Ram RahmanGandhi’s refusal to accept that caste was...
Why we should listen to the music of the Holocaust – and that of Syrian refugees
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Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report
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In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up...
No dialogue between sheep and wolves
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No to Hindutva, Yes to Hindustaniyat
Image Courtesy: V. Sreenivasa Murthy / The HinduCourtesy: www.indianculturalforum.inLet...
Shakespeare and Islam
This article appeared http://blog.oup.com/2015/12/shakespeare-and-islam/ on December 27, 2015 Without Islam...
Indian Policy victim of Upper Caste Bias, Unreason – Dilip Mandal
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Dilip C Mandal Speech At Bamcef Convention 2016 AWAAZ INDIA...
Muslims and I – Vijay Tendulkar
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