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Today April 19, is the death anniversary of Comrade Ahilya Rangnekar. Her birth centenary year began on July 6, 2022 and will end on July 8, 2023. This article was first published in 'People's Democracy' and 'Loklahar', and in the CPI-M Marathi weekly 'Jeewanmarg' last year in July 2022.

In a special conversation with NewsClick, historian, Irfan Habib said that after the changes, the image of India will be tarnished in front of the world.

This comes just after the NCERT removed chapters on the Mughal Empire from class 12 history books

The acquittals took place despite directions by the High Court being seized of the matter since 2021 where the issue raised is of crucial documents including the FIR and other evidence had “gone missing”, of strict and fair procedures that need to be followed; this 2021 legal intervention by a journalist Qurban Ali, who covered the cold blooded massacre in 1987 and Vibhuti Narain Rai, an IPS officer who, as SP Ghaziabad had filed the FIR in the Hashimpura carnage the day before, in the High Court  will now be heard with the judgement of acquittal being passed without completion of trial procedure

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

Hindu Communalists have forever sought to appropriate the young and fiery martyr in Goebbellsian ways perpetuating lies and falsehoods that include falsely promoting February 14 (Valentine’s Day) as his Death Anniversary rather than March 23, when he was actually hanged

Today is the 136th birth anniversary of M.N.Roy (1887-1954). I mention below a photograph in which M.N.Roy is standing in Centre at the top of steps with delegates at the 2nd Congress of the Communist International, 1920 alongwith Lenin and Gorky. On this occasion there are four quotes from his writings which are worth remembering at the present times.

Sarvahara Jan Andolan sends out a message of equality in an atmosphere polluted with hatred

A few years ago, a Muslim professor at a university in Uttar Pradesh, called Kabir, anti-Muslim. Now, Hindus are also calling him anti-Hindu.

At a time when our society is again falling in the grip of conservatism, irrationalism and over-religiosity, we must remind ourselves of the work of Late Haleema Beevi, the first female journalist from Kerala.