‘Bande Mataram’, ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ and ‘Hindu-Mussalman ki Jai’ were the three national slogans proposed by Mahatma Gandhi in consultation with Shaukat Ali in 1920 during the Non-Cooperation Movement, and, much later on August 29, 1947, two weeks after the country’s independence and partition, ‘Bande Mataram’ was sung at his prayer meeting in…

With the deviousness associated with a feudal culture, the highest standards are being set for a system that employs blatant untruths, hypocrisy, double standards, and fake news through large sections of the communication media influenced by the party to form the basis of a totalitarian political system characterised by the extreme Hindu…