Decoding the Red Fort’s New Lexicon: ‘Dimagi Naxals’ and the Politics of Isolation
From the ramparts of history, a call that blurs security and dissent On the morning of India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood once more on the ramparts of the Red Fort and delivered a speech that mixed the familiar cadence of developmental ambition with a sharper, more disquieting note. Amid announcements of […]
Erasing the Sultanate: Delhi University’s Syllabus Revision and the Politics of Forgetting
When a premier institution drops a course on state formation, authority, and cultural evolution, it is not curriculum reform—it is historical amnesia by design. Delhi University’s recently revised postgraduate history syllabus has quietly excised a cornerstone course: The Delhi Sultanate: Structures of Authority in Medieval North India (13th–14th Centuries). Taught for decades in Semester III, […]
Fidel Castro at 100: The Rebel Who Made History Tremble
On 13 August 2026, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz would have turned 100. A century after his birth, the Cuban revolutionary remains one of the most consequential and contested figures of the modern age: admired by millions as an apostle of national dignity and social justice, condemned by others as the architect of a one-party state […]
The Architecture of Our Republic: Why History Cannot Be Written from Scratch
As India celebrates its 80th Independence Day on August 15, 2026, the rhetoric of our public square is frequently dominated by a narrative of total rupture.A political discourse has taken root that suggests the nation’s true history began only in recent memory, portraying the preceding decades as a period of inertia or drift. Yet, no […]
India, Bharat, Hindustan: What’s in a Name?
As India marks its 79th Independence Day, the debate over the nation’s name reminds us that our greatest inheritance is not a single word but a civilisation shaped by many histories, many languages and many identities Every Independence Day invites a nation to reflect not merely on the moment it became free, but on the […]
Sumit Sarkar:A scholar who transformed the writing of modern Indian history
India has lost one of its most distinguished historians. Professor Sumit Sarkar, among the most influential scholars of modern India in the post-Independence era, passed away on Thursday, 13 August 2026, at the age of 87 after a prolonged illness. His death marks the end of an extraordinary intellectual journey that transformed the study of […]
A visionary leader transformed india through science, purpose and compassion!
On the twelfth of August each year, India reflects on the extraordinary life and monumental legacy of Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, a titan of modern science whose visionary leadership reshaped the contours of national progress. In the nascent years following Independence, when a young republic struggled with widespread poverty, illiteracy, and economic fragility, many argued […]
The Eternal Flame of Youthful Sacrifice: Remembering Khudiram Bose on His Martyrdom Anniversary
On this day each year, the nation pauses to remember a boy who became a legend before he had lived long enough to grow a full beard. Khudiram Bose, executed on 11 August 1908 at the age of eighteen years, eight months and a handful of days, remains one of the purest emblems of courage […]
No Quietude for Equal Citizens: Why ‘Minority Dharma’ is a Recipe for Permanent Second-Class Status
Ibn Khaldun Bharati’s recent column in The Print frames the so-called Cockroach (CJP) protests as a turning point that should persuade Indian Muslims to embrace political quietude. He calls this the “Minority Dharma”: depoliticisation, disbanding the vote bank, accepting permanent minority status without collective political assertion, and earning the majority’s goodwill by staying out of […]
A Shivling Claim Is Not a Licence to Invade Deoband
The proposed Ganga-water procession is not an act of faith but a test of whether the rule of law still restrains majoritarian provocation The proposed visit of the Hindu Raksha Dal to Darul Uloom Deoband on August 11 is being presented as a religious act: a group carrying Ganga water from Haridwar to offer it […]
