Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stated that Hinduism and Hindutva are two different things and asserted that people should explore the differences. He was referring to the recent book that was published by Salman Khurshid, where he equates BJP’s Hindutva with radical Islamic groups like the Islamic State and Boko Haram of Nigeria.... Read more
Gurnah who focuses his work on colonialism and the experience of refugee crisis and trauma won the Nobel Prize for Literature on 7 October 2021. The Swedish Academy praised Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazal Gurnah and described his work as “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”.... Read more
On being simply notified by a twitter user and an RSS ideologue, Ratan Sharda, the Ministry of Culture has removed a certain paragraph about the Mughal Empire from the KnowIndia website. Though being an uncertain, barely noticeable incident... Read more
On 24 August, a committee of 3 members from the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) reviewed the names of ‘freedom fighters’ from 1857 to the independence in 1947, and has decided to remove 387 names of martyrs who died in the Malabar Rebellion of 1921. ... Read more
Facebook has seen a number of controversies in recent years. But now, the company which was recently brought under new parent Meta, is witnessing a decline in its user base. This has happened for the first time in Facebook’s 17 years of existence that its user base has actually gone down.
4 February 2022
Read MoreWhat’s the link between the renaming of a cafeteria in the State Department this week, the overwhelming White domination of American diplomacy, and India?
4 February 2022
Read MorePresident Vladimir Putin said Russia and China play an “important stabilising role” in international politics ahead of a meeting this week with Xi Jinping in Beijing.
4 February 2022
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