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Congress keeps forgetting its own history. Hindu Mahasabha was inseparable part of the party

To deny such recent history and put the blame of Partition upon Hindus is proof of the vanishing historical sense of the Congress.

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Nehru and Jinnah made Indian politics their personal quarrel. Partition was a consequence

Ambedkar regarded both Gandhi and Jinnah as suffering from ‘colossal egotism’, who made Indian politics a matter of their ‘personal quarrel’...

14.08.2025 5

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India’s language policy failed Hindi, not Stalin or Thackeray brothers

English is the real official language in India. Calling Hindi the Raj-bhasha has been more for political reasons, and an expensive farce.

10.07.2025 10

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Not ‘One Election’, India needs a just election. Step one is an impartial EC

Indian elections are like an unfair football match. One team is forced to play barefoot.

05.07.2025 10

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The Preamble won’t be changed back to the original. Here’s why

All political parties used the 'Constitutional' mandate of secularism and Article 29 to provide facilities and privileges exclusively to non-Hindus.

02.07.2025 10

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JP wasn’t a saviour of Constitution. He called Mao his guru

A look at the events prior to the declaration of the Emergency reveals that it was the anti-Indira agitators, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, who brazenly...

24.06.2025 4

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