Friday, 1 July, 2022
TopicOral History

Topic: Oral History

Ashok Vijaydashmi to Dhola — National archives, central libraries failed Dalit-Bahujan history

K. Kalyani -
Oral histories of the Dalit-Bahujan community take us beyond the existing notions about India’s excluded communities and the Brahminical and Eurocentric biases inherent in them.

Real fight for National Archives should be about what it doesn’t contain, not the relocation

Rama Lakshmi -
Nehru's core template for recording history was unity, Modi’s is uniformity. But history, at best, is an 'argument'.

No politicians will speak in Delhi Oral History Project as AAP govt looks to avoid controversy

Aneesha Bedi -
AAP govt has decided Delhi Oral History Project will focus on prominent personalities like economists, cultural enthusiasts, historians, apart from the common Delhiite.

Nepal’s elite failed to preserve Gurkhas’ 200-year history. But folk songs kept it alive

Tim I. Gurung -
In ‘Ayo Gorkhali’, former British Gurkha Tim I. Gurung stitches together a history of his community that goes beyond soldiering and bravery.

Idea of India wasn’t demolished at Ayodhya. That happened in our ‘liberal’ homes

Rama Lakshmi -
The 1992 Babri Masjid demolition was no sudden act. All of our family conversations contributed to the pickaxes that hit the mosque in Ayodhya.

After Sajjan Kumar conviction, everyone has become an expert on Sikh trauma

Harnidh Kaur -
Any half-baked attempt at telling Sikhs that we have been ‘gifted’ justice is just another insulting consolation.

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Opinion

PM Modi at the MSME Idea Hackathon, 2022. | Praveen Jain | ThePrint

BJP, Modi’s ‘total politics’ stems from insecurity. They still don’t rule the power elite

Dilip Mandal -
Yogendra Yadav is wrong. BJP might have a hegemonic position in politics and economy, but it's not the same in moral and intellectual spaces.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg | Source: Flickr

Why Turkey’s rise in Russia-Ukraine war is a masterclass in balancing, hedging strategy

Economy

The Reserve Bank of India logo | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

RBI intervenes with multi-pronged strategy in battle against rupee fall

Subhadip Sircar -
The Reserve Bank’s challenges include crashes in forward dollar premiums to rising open interest in futures that adds to pressure on the currency.

Defence

The maiden flight of the Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator | Photo: DRDO

‘Major milestone’: India conducts maiden flight of unmanned aircraft demonstrator

Snehesh Alex Philip -
DRDO calls flight a significant step towards self-reliance in defence technologies; Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauds achievement, says ‘it paves way for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in critical military systems’.

National Interest

With Agnipath, Modi govt’s shock & awe doctrine may have misfired a vital reform, yet again

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi govt's biggest flaw has been its disinclination to accept limitations of electoral majorities. This ruined land acquisition and farm reform, stalled labour codes.

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