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History as a discipline is about time, place and people. Teachers of history compartmentalise themselves into sections of time and of place/region. Not so the non-historian. Punj writes,

ate-night on 20 April 2022, Jignesh Mevani, MLA from Vadgam Assembly Constituency, was arrested from the government circuit house in Palanpur, Banaskantha district, Gujarat, by Assam Police. The arrest was made on a complaint filed by Arup Kumar Dey, a BJP member from Khokrajar, Assam, who took offence to one of the tweets posted by him during the visit of PM Narendra Modi in Gujarat. In his tweet, Jignesh Mevani appealed to PM Narendra Modi to take out time and restore peace in Himmatnagar and Khambhat areas, where communal violence had recently occurred following Ram Navami processions, especially in residential areas with a sizable minority population.

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FOR OVER a decade, CBSE students have read these translated excerpts from two poems in Urdu by Faiz Ahmed Faiz in the

In 1922 Mohandas K. Gandhi was at the crest of a surge