Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
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Topic: History

India’s founders gave us our Constitution. We must prove to them that we can keep it

Vineeth Krishna -
Indian Constitution is the sole flower in South Asia’s constitutional graveyard.

BJP and Congress use Tipu Sultan for politics but are shockingly ignorant of his history

Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi -
Tipu Sultan is simply another useful historical figure onto whom contemporary political prejudices can be projected.

Aurangzeb protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed, says historian Audrey Truschke

Jyoti Malhotra -
Controversial Indologist Audrey Truschke says that many Hindutvawadis feel genuinely injured today by Aurangzeb's very existence and what they believe he did in the...

The ruin of Zafar Mahal: Mughal era’s last holdout is now a den of drug addicts and gamblers

Alind Chauhan -
The former Mughal palace has been subsumed by unauthorised constructions, and run over by drug addicts and gamblers.

India’s top 5 revenue generating monuments were all built by Muslim rulers

Sanya Dhingra -
The Taj Mahal and 4 other monuments earned Rs 146.05 crore, more than half the total revenue generated by centrally-protected monuments, in 2017-18.

Lawrence Freedman’s book shows that thinking about the future of war has its own history

Srinath Raghavan -
‘The Future of War’ tracks diverse themes through the long arc of modern warfare from mid-19th century to the present – and of course the future.

By aligning state board’s syllabus with NCERT, has Punjab’s history been subsumed by national history?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on Punjab School Education Board decision to align its senior secondary history syllabus with NCERT's National Curriculum Framework 2005. The move has sparked a major controversy in the state.

Ramachandra Guha’s friends & fans are throwing an elaborate birthday party as he turns 60

Vandana Menon -
The historian’s birthday at the end of April will be commemorated with much fanfare, with a ‘Festschrift’ in the pipeline.

The BJP wants to rewrite history so that its politics can be all about ideology

Sandip Roy -
In a desperate rush to make factual history out of our grandmother's stories, these culture warriors denigrate something more powerful – power of imagination.

It’s time to end the many conspiracy theories over Subhash Chandra Bose’s death

Ashis Ray -
Eleven different official and unofficial investigations show that Subhas Chandra Bose died due to the air crash while in a military hospital in Taiwan, 1945.
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World’s $300 trillion in debt. Here’s what it means for services like health, education

Victoria Masterson -
To meet debt payments, at least 100 countries will have to reduce spending on essential services, the IMF estimates.

Defence

Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet pulls off its first successful launch from a ski-jump at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, US | Photo credit: Boeing

2 American Super Hornets in India as Boeing looks to showcase fighters for Navy deal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Navy looking at about 26 multi-role deck-based fighters for its aircraft carrier. Visit by Super Hornets comes close on heels of similar trip by competitor Rafale M of Dassault Aviation.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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