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India International Centre President Shyam Saran should apologise for inviting Romila Thapar for History lecture

Guest Author - 18 January, 2023

Romila Thapar being invited for CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at India International Centre has created quite a furore.

News Reports

Despite calls for boycott, Romila Thapar delivers lecture at IIC: Some instances when Hindus were hounded, speeches cancelled, as Left called for boycott

Dibakar Dutta - 17 January, 2023

In December 2015, JNUSU displayed their intolerance over an invitation sent to Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev to the International Congress of Vedanta.

News Reports

Marxist historians like Romila Thapar did present a ‘rose tinted’ version of Hindu-Muslim unity in Nehruvian textbooks: William Dalrymple admits

OpIndia Staff - 28 December, 2019

William Dalrymple said that history books written in the 1950s left sufficient room for questioning their authenticity.

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Romila Thapar’s fantasy fiction: Claims Yudhisthira of Mahabharata was inspired by Mauryan emperor Ashoka

Sanghamitra - 21 September, 2019

Not only is Romila's claim completely ignoring a few millennia between Mahabharata and Mauryan emperor Ashoka, but it also has many other flaws.

News Reports

17 Emeritus Professors from Social Sciences and Humanities, only 4 from Science, rules changed to end this skew: JNU

OpIndia Staff - 4 September, 2019

12 from Social Sciences and Humanities, 4 from Science, JNU rules changed to end this skew:

News Reports

The Hindu spreads fake news on JNU’s review of Professor Emeritus, changes date of meeting from 2018 to 2019

OpIndia Staff - 2 September, 2019

The JNU EC had amended the rules on Professor Emeritus in August 2018, but The Hindu reported it as August 2019

News Reports

Not just Romila Thapar, all JNU Emeritus Professors above 75 years age are being reviewed as per University rules

OpIndia Staff - 1 September, 2019

Several JNU Emeritus Professors has not visited the university in the last 3 years

Fact-Check

Of Nationalism and Hindu history: When fiction writer Romila Thapar writes for racist NYT, the result is bound to be poppycock

K Bhattacharjee - 18 May, 2019

In an article for the 'failing' New York Times (as POTUS Trump calls it), Romila Thapar, academia and approved fake news peddler, spreads rather dubious canards about Hindu Nationalism and Hindu history

‘Urban Naxals’, Congress hacks and ’eminent historians’: What Media won’t tell you about writers who signed the anti-Modi statement

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2019

Over 200 writers have come forward with a statement of their own against the incumbent government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Law

No urgent hearing of review petition: SC to Romila Thapar on Urban Naxal case

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2018

Romila Thapar had filed a petition seeking a review of the Supreme Court order of rejecting a SIT probe into the arrests of five alleged Urban Naxals.

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