"Aurangzeb protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed. He employed more Hindus in his imperial administration than any prior Mughal ruler by a fair margin," says Truschke. In her book, “ The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King, ” Truschke unpacks a side of Aurangzeb largely unknown to Indians. (Source: Stanford University) “Aurangzeb was arguably the most powerful and wealthiest ruler of his day. His nearly 50-year reign (1658–1707) had a profound influence on the political landscape of early modern India, and his legacy—real and imagined—continues to loom large in India and Pakistan today.” Not something we are used to reading about the Mughal emperor, but historian Audrey Truschke has a distinct take on the most hated of Babur’s successors. In her book, “The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King,” Truschke unpacks a side of Aurangzeb largely unknown to Indians. Locating his personality in the time during which her ruled, ...

Sandy is a 12 year-old Brazilian girl, suffering from multiple health problems including a liver condition. The Facebook page of Garrafão do Norte, the place where she lives, has shared her story of strength and perseverance and made an appeal for help. In the video posted on the page, you can see little Sandy talking from her hospital bed. You can also see that her medical condition has caused an enlarged belly. It must take a sick mind to lift this photograph of an ailing child and share it as a pregnant Rohingya girl. The photograph was shared on twitter by Prashant Umrao Patel, an advocate. He added that “she is in UN clinic, going to give birth to a child soon”   Here is the original video from the Garrafão do Norte page, showing Sandy. After this fake news was busted by Boom Fact Check , Patel quietly deleted the tweet without a word of apology. Here’s a video of the little girl. https://www.facebook.com/jeanne.santos.562/videos/1011657392279253/ Thi...

We, on behalf of Council for Protection of Civil Rights, UK, urge you to demand Government of India to bring an immediate end to mob-lynching and give justice to the victims by punishing the culprits and giving compensation to the family of each victim. We sincerely urge immediate ban on beef import from India and import of all leather products from beef by the United Kingdom, European Union, United States of America, Canada and all civilised nations of the world. Cows are held sacred by Hindu community in North India but big business houses involved in the beef trade are instigating hatred against the minority community in the name of beef, and they continue to make huge profits by exporting beef. We have to show our resentment on genocide and hate crimes being committed in India by the right wing fascist party and its allied terror organisations. We urge issuance of urgent travel advisory against travel to India in light of lynching on suspicion of eating beef and c...

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9026134102896044"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Today, 23 July, is the 111th birth anniversary of Chandra Shekhar Azad, one of the greatest leaders of the Indian freedom movement. Azad led the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), India’s premier revolutionary, anti-Imperialist organisation. Earlier, when the organisation was called HRA, Ram Prasad Bismil was the chief. Azad took over the leadership after Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaque Ullah, Roshan Singh, and Rajendra Lahiri, the leading lights of the HRA, were arrested. All four were hanged at different places. HRA’s spine was broken. Yet, along with Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, Azad rebuilt the party as a socialist organisation committed to the overthrow of the British regime. Despite being a leftist, Azad never gave up wearing the sacred religious thread (Janeu) ....

Aggressive hashtags and spittle-flying anchors go about business with Pakistani intrusions or LoC ceasefire violations but all go meek when it comes to Chinese incursions. Indian TV channels are known to go into an overheated frenzy each time there is a border issue with Pakistan. However, provocative statements like, “The Indian military can choose to return to its territory with dignity, or be kicked out of the area by Chinese soldiers,” by the Chinese State media, which has been at its chauvinistic best in response to the recent flare-up in tension between India and China, got little response from the Indian media. The border standoff started over India’s objection to a Chinese road construction through Doklam plateau and soon escalated with China destroying two Indian Army bunkers and stopping sections of the Mansarovar yatra. Let us see if their coverage of the Chinese aggression matches up to the jingoi...

It is one thing for Twitter trolls to use posts from satirical websites for political propaganda. However, for main stream media outlets to promote satire as news is quite disturbing. It shows how the process of news making lacks the due diligence in a few organisations. Sometime ago, Aajtak had published a  fake fatwa  about men being allowed to eat their wives if they are extremely hungry. Pune Mirror had published the  same fake fatwa  in their newspaper. It  turned out to be  a sarcastic column written by a satirist Moroccan blogger called Israfel al-Maghribi. Yesterday, yet another set of news organisations have fallen for a piece of satire claiming a Pakistani man was sentenced to death due to farting in mosques during Ramzan. This satirical post was published by a website called  World News Daily Report . The website carries a disclaimer at the bottom of every page on its website stating that the nature of their content is entirely fiction...