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Here is the report of the first NDA government’s (1998) brazen attempt to ’revise’ Gandhi’s Collected Works. Hundreds of whimsical deletions and changes were noticed by well-known scholars and Gandhians in India and around the world, who viewed them as an insult to scholarship, and demanded an end to such attempts to play with historical documents. Tridip Suhrud, now director of Sabarmati Ashram, wrote a detailed analysis of this shameless behaviour in EPW in November 2004. It was only after the defeat of the NDA government that the fraudulently ’revised’ edition of the CWMG was withdrawn, in 2005.

1967 pamphlet by a prominent India communist SM Mehdi that recounts an episode from the early history of the communist movement in India

As a former student of his at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, I want to mention a few of his contributions to radical political culture in Punjab.

One of our readers Aflatoon Afloo, had posted the following comment on our article History Sheeters (1) – Narendra Damodardas Modi – Was Congress Responsible for India’s Partition?.
विभाजन के मामले में गांधीजी को सरदार और नेहरू के साथ रखना आपके द्वारा जनता की आंख में धूल झोंकना है। कांग्रेस कार्यसमिति में विभाजन के प्रस्ताव के खिलाफ गांधी,बादशाह खान,जेपी और लोहिया थे।सरदार और नेहरू को कुर्सी दिख रही थी देश नहीं। अंग्रेजों के प्रस्ताव को मानना और जिन्ना-सावरकर के द्विराष्ट्र सिद्धान्त को (…)