Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
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Topic: History

Our pick of top 10 books in 2021

ThePrint Team -
2021 saw a variety of books being published as life crawled back to normal from the pandemic. These are our top picks.

Babri, Saraswati, Aryans – There are rival Indian histories now and campuses are the warzone

Vandana Menon -
What used to be ‘basement history’ is now mainstream in Lutyens’ Delhi. The ‘ivory tower' of the Left on academics is being contested by an ‘imaginative’ Right.

Freeing Hindu Temples is a liberal idea against a hypocrite State

Siddharth Kapure -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

India vs NZ Test series sees four captains lead two sides for first time in 132 years

Shyam Nandan Upadhyay -
The series being played between India and New Zealand is the first Test rubber to feature four captains since England toured South Africa in 1889.

Govt and military owe India an authentic history of the 1971 Bangladesh War. Rest is mythology

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Halos around personalities from the 1971 Bangladesh War victory have no sanctity. Myths and claims of self-aggrandisement must be debunked.

Politics over history and falsifying historical records fail India’s growth

Anu Tiwari -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

How Mughal India celebrated Diwali — from ‘Akash diya’ to Red Fort

Rana Safvi -
In ‘Shahjahanabad’, Rana Safvi writes about how the ‘Rang Mahal’ in Delhi’s Red Fort was lit up to celebrate Diwali.

Look at Jewish Museum, Berlin and Jallianwala Bagh. India needs restoration, not renovation

Prattusa Mallik -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Why stop at Mughals, Manoj Muntashir? Mandela can teach you a lot about forgetting

Dilip Mandal -
Bollywood lyricist Manoj Muntashir argued that Indians have forgotten their ancestors — but he is being a dishonest archaeologist.

The ICHR poster is Hindutva institutionalising pettiness. Trying to erase Nehru is futile

Purushottam Agrawal -
The Narendra Modi dispensation has taken this hatred to a pathological level because of the deep personal inferiority complex vis-a-vis Nehru.
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Economy

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GDP data this week will indicate FY23 outlook. But analysis shows growth still below pre-Covid yrs

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Analysis of industrial & consumer data not included in usual ‘high-frequency indicators’ shows although demand seems to have recovered from pandemic, it remains weak.

Defence

Illustration: Soham Sen | The Print

Modi govt moves with Arunachal Frontier Highway, among India’s ‘toughest’ projects yet, China in mind

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The 2,000 km-long highway will be of strategic importance to military. Same equipment used on other side of LAC being deployed to carry out work on tough terrain, say officials.

National Interest

A Gujarat gamble: A likely reason Rahul is not giving Modi a fight this assembly election

Shekhar Gupta -
I'd rather not buy idea that Rahul's holding his fire until 2024. More likely, Congress believes Karnataka offers best chance of winning a Gujarat-sized state if Gujarat is too challenging.

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