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Eminent Marxist historian Dwijendra Narayan Jha is dead. He was a former professor and chair at the Department of History at Delhi University specializing in the ancient and medieval history of Bharat. His “specialization”, however, was more in the concoction of facts to suit the leftist narrative. In his books, he focused more on imparting the ideology than imparting the facts.

MK Gandhi has been deified in Bharat to such an extent that any attempt to critically analyze his follies, for which the Hindu society continues to pay a price to date, is seen as an insult to the ‘father of the nation’. While Kalicharan Maharaj has stated that he stands by his comments even as he faces multiple cases in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh where the Shiv Sena-led MVA and Congress are in power respectively, it is time to take a look at the history of the ‘mahatma’ tag.

The Indian Express has started off the new year with its anti-Hindutva propaganda in its latest report where it coined the term “anti-namaz brigade” and linked it to peaceful protests underway against the controversial arrest of Hindu seer Kalicharan Maharaj in Gurgram.

On January 1, the owner of the propaganda Instagram account f*ckBJP has been accused of emotional abuse by at least three women. f*ckBJP is “popular” for its anti-BJP, anti-Modi posts and has over 90,000 followers on Instagram.

Recently Naseeruddin Shah has come out with a gem of history. He says Mughals are like “refugees” – because they settled here. The Aussies must be kicking themselves. Why didn’t we have a brilliant historian like Shah saheb?! The British too came there as refugees and formed a “syncretic” culture with the indigenous tribes.

Amidst the rising fervor of the state legislative assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, political parties are rushing to secure their vote bank and propagate their election agenda. On the same note, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi is continuously addressing elections rallies in the state, and in such a rally on Saturday, he launched a fierce attack on Samajwadi Party and BJP.

Bollywood entertainer Naseeruddin Shah in his recent interview with The Wire’s Karan Thapar referred to the discussion over Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, responsible for demolishing of Hindu temples and forced religious conversion in recent times as ‘separatism’ policy of ‘ruling party’. He then spoke about the recent ‘Dharma Sansad’ that was held in Haridwar where people present there were accused of ‘hate speech'.

Two weeks after allegations of hate speech surfaced against the 3-day ‘Dharma Sansad’ event held in Haridwar, a 5-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted by the Uttarakhand govt to probe the accusations made in the case.

One of the platforms used by TMC leader Saket Gokhale to raise funds for his ‘sustenance’ as he filed Rs 10 RTI full time while not holding on to a regular day job, was ‘OurDemocracy.in’. In November 2019, Gokhale tweeted a link to his crowdfunding platform asking people to cough up money because he chose to give up his ‘cushy job’ to ‘fight the BJP/RSS’, which he usually did by filing frivolous RTIs which cost Rs 10.