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Mughals

Social Media

Quran is WhatsApp University? It is if this Radio Mirchi RJ is to be believed

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2021

Radio Mirchi RJ Sayema declared that Islamic verses prescribing violence against non-Muslims are fake and are from 'WhatsApp University'

Entertainment

Hotstar rejects grievance complaints against their series on Babur, claims they are not glorifying the Islamic invader: Read what they said

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2021

Hotstar claimed the web series 'The Empire' is based on an adaptation of a novel, Empire of the Moghul – Raiders from the North, written by one Alex Rutherford which fictionalised historical events.

Social Media

Poet Manoj Muntashir gets ‘cancelled’ by ‘secular-liberals’ for calling out Mughal barbarity and false glorification

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2021

Poet Manoj Muntashir got cancelled by Leftist 'historians' and Islamists for calling Mughals as 'glorified dacoits'.

News Reports

‘Mughals were the original nation builders’, says director Kabir Khan, says portraying them as murderers is wrong

OpIndia Staff - 25 August, 2021

“If you do some research and read history, it's very tough to understand why they have to be villainized," claimed Kabir while talking about Mughals.

News Reports

Govt changes Mughal glorification page in Know India site after outrage on social media, still no mention of atrocities by Islamic invaders

Sanghamitra - 23 August, 2021

The Culture Ministry has clarified that they do not run the website and they are in talks with concerned entities to correct the mistakes.

News Reports

Govt of India’s Know India website hails Mughal rule as ‘greatest ever’, Ministry issues clarification

OpIndia Staff - 23 August, 2021

Ministry of Culture's website hails Mughal rule as 'greatest empire ever'.

Culture and History

The Battle of Haldighati: The valour of Maharana Pratap and the history of Raja Man Singh who fought against him

User - 13 August, 2021

Man Singh secured the day at the Battle of Haldighati, a success for which he would be treated as a “traitor” by the coming generations.

Opinions

School textbooks: Tools of knowledge or weapons of cultural genocide?

R S - 12 August, 2021

Narratives are not the truth; rather they nudge you to understand the truth in a particular way. They are never neutral or innocent; they are always strategic.

Entertainment

Saif’s sister Saba, chief trustee of Bhopal’s waqf properties, defends him and Kareena for naming their second son ‘Jehangir’

OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2021

A controversy erupted after it came to light that Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan have named their second child Jehangir, namesake of the Mughal Emperor

News Reports