https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-L4eOLl98   When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...

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 “Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWd25Dv5-8 Manu Pillai  is clear that “#Hindutva has understood and weaponised how Indians deal with history” in a way that the left has not. “#Secular forces are fixated on a footnoted version of history,” he says. This makes it quite unappealing to people looking to history to construct an identity.

Where does that leave the historian? Pillai agrees that he never thought he’d be in such a contentious field when he first started out. But in the end, he sees it as the price of being in the public eye. Historians are people too. The idea that a pure or virtuous history is possible, he suggests, may itself be an idealised position.

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 India deserves better than M-O-D-I: Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, Incompetence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoA4kFU3Cg The government’s constant drive for headline management, its pursuit of hype, its industrial-scale disinformation campaigns carried forward by its media and social media armies, and its wall-to-wall projection of Modi as a superhero, are obsessive, fantastical, and delusional', argues TMC MP in Rajya Sabha Sagarika Ghose.