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Culture and History

How Rani of Jhansi escaped the Nehruvian hammer of oblivion

Ashish Shukla - 2 February, 2019

Rani of Jhansi herself was a subject of great attention by the Colonial authors, historians and missionaries.

News Reports

UK daily calls Subhash Chandra Bose a ‘Hindu Nationalist’, says Andaman islands renaming a move to dissociate from colonial history

Devanshu Rajput - 2 January, 2019

The UK daily carries an article, labelling Subash Chandra Bose, as a Hindu radical and INC as a rag-tag army,

News Reports

BJP plans a 100-feet statue of Dalit icon Uda Devi who fought against the British in 1857

K Bhattacharjee - 1 January, 2019

BJP has announced construction of a 100-feet tall statue in Uttar Pradesh of Uda Devi, a Dalit freedom fighter, who fought in the Indian War for Independence in 1857.

Opinions

Bitter baby empire: It’s time the UK minds its own business

Dhaval Patel - 4 November, 2018

The fact is that not one pound from the British Aid that was given to India, went to the construction of this grand statue.

It was Sardar Patel who united India after the British left it in tatters

Ashutosh Kulkarni - 31 October, 2018

World’s tallest statue is just a small tribute we can give to this man.

Culture and History

As a Scot, I agree with VP Venkaiah Naidu. Every country should preserve its culture and heritage

Ron Grosset - 1 October, 2018

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu’s vision has to be the right way forward.

Opinions

The apotheosis of Gandhi: A political project

K Bhattacharjee - 15 August, 2018

The deification of Gandhi was driven by political goals.

News Reports

Dadabhai Naoroji: One of the founders of Congress and an Indian voice that reverberated in British parliament

Anubhav - 15 August, 2018

Dadabhai has been in many ways the first Indian voice which found an audience in the British society.

News Reports

Firstpost deletes tweet calling a columnist ‘Sanghi’, but exposes the bias that thrives in newsrooms

OpIndia Staff - 12 August, 2018

Perhaps the flagbearers of freedom of speech only like to speak their minds, but don't like to listen to what is on others' minds.

News Reports

Decolonisation of Social Sciences will be a befitting tribute to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee on his Birthday

Kausik Gangopadhyay - 27 June, 2018

Let us not accept the garbage of the West in the education of our children

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