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Writer | Literary Critic | Historian of Ideas | British Academy Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Latest book-Kabir,Kabir amzn.to/3xJT8e
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‘Thank You, Gandhi’ Reimagines the Mahatma as Moral Compass in Fractured India

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By Krishna Kumar, Vaishna Roy Verified, Purushottam Agrawal, Bashir Ali Abbas
| Frontline India Verified
In 1969, the Gandhi centenary year, Jainendra Kumar, the eminent Hindi writer, noting the possibility of Gandhi being forgotten, envisioned a future when he will be “reinvented not as an individual, but as a non-personal, almost mythical presence” and hoped from that point in time “a new era of human history will begin”.
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Unmasking Golwalkar: The Ideological Architect of Hindutva and the Rise of the RSS

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By Purushottam Agrawal
| Flipboard
Unmasking Golwalkar: The Ideological Architect of Hindutva and the Rise of the RSS Addressing BJP MPs in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attributed the formation of the first unabashedly Hindutva government to the “tapasya …
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On Republic Day, the Independence question

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By Purushottam Agrawal
| National Herald India Verified
The Sangh’s position is no mystery, but do we all grasp what makes our democracy special? It was neither an emotional outburst nor a slip of the tongue. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that India may have won political freedom on 15 August 1947 but it became ‘truly independent’ on the day of the pran pratishtha of the new Ram Mandir in Ayodhya was a considered articulation, a reiteration of the Sangh’s fundamental position on Indian nationhood.
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