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Topic: Statues

Why Gandhi’s statues have become a global target, London to South Africa to Melbourne

The vandalism of MK Gandhi’s statue in London’s Tavistock Square is the latest in a string of similar incidents worldwide over the last two decades. So why is Gandhi drawing such ire?

A wave of statue nationalism is sweeping Rajasthan. Dead soldiers are everywhere

450 statues have been unveiled, most of them located in Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Churu. The former two are known as Sainiko ka Zila.

Christ statue removed in Bengaluru after ‘Hindu groups’ claim cemetery land was misused

Police say some Hindu groups complained that land on which the statue had come up was allotted for cemetery. Local Christians claim outsiders trying to create tension.

RSS to milk ‘temple’ cow for 2019 elections and a solution for all housing problems

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Under PM Modi, India got back more stolen antiquities in 3 years than the UPA government in 10 years

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits abroad often have a return gift. He has brought back more than a dozen historical artifacts from the United States, Australia,...

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.