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Mahatma Gandhi on the historic barefoot march that he began on January 7, 1947, trying to extinguish the flames of intolerance in Bihar and East Bengal’s Noakhali.

RSS and Gandhi: Sangh Parivar's belated attempts to appropriate national heroes in quest for legitimacy

The Hindu right wing has been trying to appropriate the legacy of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Subhas Chandra Bose in a bid to acquire legitimacy. All of them

The site of a blast that ripped through a train at Mumbai’s Matunga railway station on July 11, 2006. It was one of seven bombings within 11minutes targeting Mumbai’s suburban railway network. Abdul Wahid Shaikh, writer of the book “Innocent Prisoners: Stories of Muslim Youth falsely implicated in 7/ 11 Mumbai train blasts and other terror cases”, was the only person to be acquitted out of 13 accused in the case.

Farce of prosecution leaves innocent Muslims as victims

Innocent people suffer because public prosecutors in India are not free of government control, and the victims are very often Muslims.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: A Prime Minister determined to flout the nation’s consensus

The subtext of the declaration of August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day, as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” is to blame Muslims and the Muslim Le

1908: An image of the proceedings of Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s second trial for sedition in the Bombay High Court. Tilak was sentenced to six years’ transportation in this case.

‘Sedition’ in freedom struggle

The arguments by British members of the Viceroy’s Council, which passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878 to suppress “seditious” writing in Indian lan

Justice Arun Kumar Mishra.

Judicial disgrace: Fawning judges

Justice Arun Mishra’s fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public function does not augur well for the independence of the judiciary.

Hindutva stamp in Modi’s foreign policy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy is shaped by his Hindu nationalist ideology and the RSS’ expansionist utopia and driven by his self-aggr

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Governor Jagdeep Dhankar.

Governor: A colonial relic

Successive governments at the Centre abused their power to plant their men in State capitals as Governors, wrecking the parliamentary system in the St

A view of the Central Vista redevelopment project in progress, near Parliament House in New Delhi on May 20.

Modi as Tuqhlaq

What “benefits” does the Central Vista Project bring to India’s people? What is to be gained by massive statues built on land or sea?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Puja rituals for the construction of a Ram Mandir in the Ram Janmabhoomi premises on August 5, 2020.

Shahi Idgah mosque and Gyanwapi mosque: next targets of RSS

The recent petitions seeking the conversion of the Shahi Idgah mosque at Mathura and the Gyanwapi mosque at Varanasi are in line with the revanchist a

Mehbooba Mufti, People’s Democratic Party leader. She has been denied a passport after an adverse report by the CID of Jammu and Kashmir Police.

Passport and liberty

The denial of the right to a passport and travel outside the country amounts to a denial of the fundamental rights of the citizen enshrined in the Con

Mohan Bhagwat, RSS sarsanghchalak, at a book launch in Hyderabad on February 25. He said “Akhand Bharat” was possible and that countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan were “ours”.

Akhand Bharat: The RSS' imperial pretensions

India expects its smaller neighbours to call it uncle and the Great Powers to call it brother.

A school in North East Delhi’s Shivpuri, after a fire started by rioters in February 2020. Communal violence often tests the integrity of judges heading commissions of inquiry.

Citizens’ inquiries

The entire history of India’s freedom movement is studded with inquiries by citizens’ bodies. The exercise is voluntary and the noise it arouses is a