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The Dharam Sansad in Haridwar from December 16-19, 2021, where provocative speeches were made. Criticising the secular idea of India, the RSS has propagated that the secularism of Nehru and others is all about Muslim appeasement.

The spectre of an ideological state

The proponents of Hindutva seek to replace India’s secular nationalism, which evolved through the freedom movement, with their version of Hindu cultur
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Janos Kornai (1928-2021): An economist as an iconoclast

Janos Kornai (1928-2021), the Hungarian economist, provided the first systematic and structural understanding of the flaws in the centralised command
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The Mehtab Bagh was the last of 11 gardens built by the Mughals along the Yamuna near the Taj Mahal in Agra. In the construction of the Taj Mahal, the brilliance of Central and West Asian engineering reached its pinnacle. Its garden, true to Central Asian aesthetics, added to its beauty.

On the composite culture of India

One of the most significant frames of India’s cultural aggregation has been the idea of a joint Hindu-Muslim syncretic culture. Indians learn new form
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Doyen of secular history

A historian who represented Indian academia as an independent voice at the highest international forums, Prof. Satish Chandra (1922–2017 )upheld the v
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