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Why I killed Gandhi: In the words of Nathuram Godse

Panchmukha -
(Nathuram Godse assassinated Gandhiji on 30 January 1948. The trial began on 27 May 1948 and concluded on 10 February 1949. He was sentenced...

UK is willing to shell out $800,000 so that Lord and Lady Mountbatten’s secrets remain a secret

Panchmukha -
What is the cost of keeping a secret? The UK government is paying 600,000 pounds (around $800,000) for the same purpose. The secret: Diaries of...

Pak ‘annexes’ Gilgit-Baltistan: What happened to its ‘freedom-for-Kashmiris’ farce?

Sant Kumar Sharma -
Gilgit-Baltistan, a part of undivided Jammu and Kashmir, is in the eye of a storm now that Pakistan has formally included it as a...

When Sheikh Abdullah had `conspired’ to give Break-India project a momentum

Sant Kumar Sharma -
On October 26, 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of then princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, signed an Instrument of Accession with India....

Spare us your history lessons, Dalai Lama

Ashish Shukla -
It’s such a humbug from the 14th Dalai Lama to suggest that the 1947 Partition could’ve been avoided had Pt Jawaharlal Nehru accepted Mahatama Gandhi’s offer...

Nehru & his ‘Himalayan blunders’

Ashish Shukla -
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (the title of Pandit is a little incongruous for a sworn secularist) passed away on this day (May 27), 54 years...

Facts on J & K that never reached you

Vivek Sinha -
History, in India, is a strange subject and historians even stranger. The subject is reviled by students who perceive it to be dull and...

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