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Topic: Savarkar

Godse was ‘yearning’ for Savarkar’s support in Gandhi murder trial court. But it never came

Vikram Sampath -
In ' Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966' historian-author Vikram Sampath explores both sides of the debate about Savarkar's role in Gandhi's assassination.

Gwalior to Godse — Was Sardar Patel soft on Savarkar in Gandhi murder case, and if so, why

Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad -
My mother was part of the prosecution team in the Gandhi murder trial. She pointed out several loopholes that were allowed to remain so.

Sibal on his friend Jaitley, Bibek Debroy on his legacy & Manu Joseph on Savarkar

Achyut Mishra -
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As a teenager, Savarkar tried to destroy a mosque & was sad Hindus weren’t united

Vikram Sampath -
In the polarised tinderbox that was Maharashtra in 1890s, Vinakay Damodar Savarkar and his school mates were enraged by attacks on Hindus.

Delhi University Students Union removes unauthorised busts of Savarkar, Bhagat Singh, Bose

PTI -
The three busts were installed in the campus on 20 August by ABVP's outgoing DUSU president Shakti Singh without the permission of authorities.

Savarkar wanted one god, one nation, one goal. Modi has fulfilled his dream with Kashmir move

Vikram Sampath -
Savarkar had cautioned Nehru government not to stretch Muslim appeasement policy in Kashmir to the point where it becomes dangerous for India.

In Jerusalem, I saw a reflection of Ayodhya

Vikram Sampath -
Zionism has numerous symbolic parallels with Hindutva as espoused by Savarkar.

Read this before deciding whether Savarkar was a British stooge or strategic nationalist

Vikram Sampath -
Rahul Gandhi’s selective quoting of Savarkar’s prison petition is intellectually disingenuous.

RSS benefits most from keeping Hindutva loosely defined

Hilal Ahmed -
Hindutva is celebrated by the RSS/BJP; but there is no serious effort to clarify it.

Politics in past tense

Shekhar Gupta -
If you are so obsessed with the past, you cannot really leave it behind.
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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