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excerpts from the panel discussion on ’ The Use and Abuse of History ’ under the Modi regime [in India]. The discussion was led by KM Shrimali, and Mridula Mukherjee and Amar Farooqui as panelists. This is a Newsclick video

The rewriting of history textbooks is an old priority of the Hindu nationalist movement.

New Delhi, June 8: The Praful Bidwai Memorial Award has been set up to commemorate the life and work of one of India’s most outstanding journalists as well as accomplished author, committed activist and public intellectual, so that his legacy would inspire others.

We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the efforts of the Ministry of Home Affairs to persecute the Lawyers Collective (LC), Indira Jaising and Anand Grover in order to obstruct the legal and human rights work being carried out by them.

PUCL strongly condemns the continued persecution of Senior Advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover and the `Lawyers Collective’ organisation run by them, by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) using the coercive provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010 in an arbitrary, biased and politically motivated manner.