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Topic: History

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.

PM Modi inaugurates renovated Jallianwala Bagh memorial, says duty to protect history

PTI -
Inaugurating the renovated memorial via video conferencing Saturday, PM Modi said horrors like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre speak to the sacrifices made for India's freedom.

Learning, not avenging history – Why India needs rethink on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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

Non-BJP Hindu writers are correcting Nehruvian history. With little space for modern Muslims

Hilal Ahmed -
Recent books by authors like Shashi Tharoor and Pavan Varma invoke Hindu subjugation by Muslims to construct a ‘real’ history of India.

India’s textbooks were written with Nehru in mind. It rejected the past

Pavan Varma -
In ‘The Great Hindu Civilisation’, former diplomat and Rajya Sabha MP Pavan Varma writes that India’s history books made little mention of great Hindu kings like Krishnadevaraya or of Raja Chola I.

India’s history is in danger. Budding historians must become vigilant guardians of the past

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

Lakshmibai drank, was promiscuous, British historians wrote. Then Savarkar changed it all

Rudrangshu Mukherjee -
In 'A Begum & A Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857', historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee locates the stories of the prominent women in Indian history.

Aryans or Harappans—Who drove the creation of caste system? DNA holds a clue

Namit Arora -
In ‘Indians’, Namit Arora writes that scientists trace the earliest instances of endogamy in the subcontinent to the first millennium BCE.

Liberal intellectuals lack popular political language against Hindutva. That’s just lazy

Hilal Ahmed -
I respond to four criticisms thrown at me. I am not defending my article. I want to expand the debate.
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AI integration for military is risky business. Combat monopoly must remain with soldiers

Manvendra Singh -
The Army has plans for a technology thrust in the near term, including the use of AI to support decision-making. While well-intentioned, this may have unintended consequences.

Rudra, Bhairav commandos, Shaktiman to drone platoons—how Army is transforming for future wars

75 years of Planning Commission—what India’s first experiment can teach us in the age of PLIs

Economy

Web of spoof sites, scam call centres. Crypto theft racket modus operandi in focus amid ED crackdown

Mayank Kumar -
As part of the crypto theft racket, businessman Chirag Tomar and his aides targeted 542 victims and managed to steal a total of Rs 19.9 million.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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