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In this interview with Karan Thapar, Netaji’s grandnephew Sugata Bose said the freedom fighter would have been “quite dismayed” to see how the minorities are being discriminated against in today’s India.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s closure of abattoirs, meat shops has left butchers without livelihood, animal rearers have been forced to end their business and consumers have been forced to reduce or stop eating meat. Despite an Allahabad high court order, most major UP cities do not have authorised state-run slaughterhouses.
An aggressive campaign is under way to rehabilitate VD Savarkar as a legendary Indian nationalist and great freedom fighter who spent 50 years in the Cellular Jail. A comparison of these claims with the writings of Savarkar and record of his activities available in archival records.
In today’s climate of intolerance, the relevance of Gandhi’s last fast and his demands is ever increasing. Excerpts from Kumkum Sangari’s article, “A narrative of restoration: Gandhi’s last years and Nehruvian secularism”, first published in 2002 in the wake of the Gujarat riots.
The noted academic and journalist says India has transformed into an illiberal, majoritarian and intolerant country with an authoritarian regime under Narendra Modi.
Among the many lies the assassin had told in court, the one that endured the most was his claim that he had left the RSS and joined the Hindu Mahasabha.
The Prime Minister thanks Maharani Ahilya Bai Holkar and Maharaja Ranjit Singh for being the inspiration behind the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor Project. However, both of these did not construct the corridor. It was built by Nawab Ali Ibrahim Khan, whom the PM has chosen to ignore.
The geniuses at IIT Kharagpur have come up with a new hoax. They have declared the unicorn that appears on Indus valley seals to be a representation of “sage Risya Sringa” of the Ramayana, thus “proving” that those ancient carvers of the Indus valley seals were one and the same as the Vedic people.
The politics in the country was not as divisive and toxic in the sixties, when I was a child, as it is now. Urdu, for we siblings, was a secular language and not associated with a community or religion.
Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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