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Massacre 1984

Reading Time: 12 minutes The years after 1947 is often termed as the post-independence era. An era filled with new challenges for the new and free India. A country free from colonial rule that faced atrocities and tyranny of the British. But there have been instances when actions of the ‘democratic’ government of India have been no less tyrant […]

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Ram Setu : A National Heritage

Reading Time: 5 minutes “Hindus have destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and it was time for the Muslims to take revenge by demolishing the Ram Setu” These words pretty much sum up the intentions of M Karunanidhi and the then UPA government for demolishing the Ram Setu. Yes, there was a time, almost a decade ago when the Ram […]

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Uniform Civil Code

Reading Time: 7 minutes August 4, 1991 – The law-court of Hyderabad was brought a case where a 10-year-old girl was being sold for ₹6000 as a concubine to a toothless Arab national in the late sixties. The plan of Yahiya H.M. Al Sagish was to take his slave back to his country. When asked about his relationship with the girl, Al Sagish boldly admitted […]

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Indian Ordnance Factory

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Indian Ordnance factories are country’s oldest and largest single organisation in the defence industrial setup. It comes under the control of the Department of Defence Production of the Ministry of Defence. The first factory was set up in the year 1802 as a result of the British political and economic interest in India. Headquartered […]

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