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Social Media

EAM Jaishankar gives befitting reply to ‘historian’ Ram Guha as Nehru-Gandhi loyalist goes bonkers over Nehru’s criticism

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Ramachandra Guha, the ultra-left self-proclaimed historian, seems to have not learnt any lesson despite being getting fact-check on social media every single day.

News Reports

Marxist historians like Romila Thapar did present a ‘rose tinted’ version of Hindu-Muslim unity in Nehruvian textbooks: William Dalrymple admits

OpIndia Staff - 28 December, 2019

William Dalrymple said that history books written in the 1950s left sufficient room for questioning their authenticity.

Opinions

The proper way forward is teaching students accurate history about Tipu Sultan, not removing the Jihadist tyrant from textbooks

K Bhattacharjee - 1 November, 2019

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Therefore, it is imperative that our children are taught the truth about Tipu Sultan.

Culture and History

Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint distorts history: Claims Mughals introduced grapes to India, social media schools the author

Shashank Bharadwaj - 4 June, 2019

Grapes have been part of Indian cuisine centuries before the Mughals invaded India

Books

Saffron Swords – a book that exposes the lie peddled by Marxist historians that Hindus didn’t have courage

Dr. Rajat Mitra - 18 April, 2019

Stories of wars between Hindu warriors and invaders were subverted earlier. A new book re-tells these stories in an Indic way.

News Reports

Suspended officer Ashish Joshi threatens ‘True Indology’ after being exposed for his lack of knowledge

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2019

Ashish Joshi was accused of being involved in ‘blanket-tea scam’ and was suspended for using official letterhead for personal use, threatened and doxxed Twitter user 'True Indology'

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