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Syama Prasad Mookerjee: ‘Patriot’ or collaborator of British Rulers & Muslim League?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating victory in West Bengal assembly elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi (May 4, 2026), stated that “the soul of Syama Prasad Mookerjee must be at peace today”. Earlier too Modi had described him "a statesman, thinker and a patriot who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration". 

The poster boy of cow vigilantism, Monu Manesar, is back

A suspect in the double murder of Junaid and Nasir from Rajasthan in February this year, his name was dropped from the list of suspects, now he is back to acts of cow vigilantism

‘Rationalisation’ of Text books or Communalisation of the Polity?

Representation ImageText books of schools are also a site...

A Malyalee festival that is not about killing, one that connects us to the earth: Vishu

Vishu, a festival of harvest, celebrated world over by Malyalees (Malyalis), is also the first day according to the Malyalam month, Medam, when the Sun reached the equator

CJP complaint to Aaj Tak for airing show using the term “Mazaar Jihad”

In the show, hosted by Sudhir Chaudhary, he encouraged people to look for shrines around them and report them to the police to verify if they are real or fake.

IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”

The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged  by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC

BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit

The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify  ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”

Mughals Won’t Disappear From History Just Because Sangh Wishes so: Irfan Habib

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.

Moradabad Police debunks false communally charged claims made by Panchjanya, warns of taking legal action if misinformation is spread

In the now deleted tweet, the mouthpiece of RSS had claimed that a Muslim man had raped his Hindu wife along with his 15 friends

BHU: Students, Civil Society Members Protest Changes in Syllabi, Rising Religious Extremism

The protesters demanded strict action against miscreants and called for halt to ‘tampering’ with educational courses.

Hate Watch: BJP MLA demands demolition of Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar, willing to donate one year’s salary to have temples built on those...

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

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Syama Prasad Mookerjee: ‘Patriot’ or collaborator of British Rulers & Muslim League?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating victory in West Bengal assembly elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi (May 4, 2026), stated that “the soul of Syama Prasad Mookerjee must be at peace today”. Earlier too Modi had described him "a statesman, thinker and a patriot who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration". 

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