Rahul Gandhi's Fourth Edition Of Chhatron Ki Goonj - Students’ Echo - And The First Deliberately Reserved For Women

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In a packed ground under the lights of SSPMS College, thousands of young women rose as one, phones held high, voices cracking with emotion. Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi stood before them in a yellow shirt and delivered a line that landed like thunder: “You belong to nobody butContinue Reading

Vande Mataram: The History Behind a National Song and the Controversy Around Its Full Version

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In: India, Indian Politics, Law and Legal

Vande Mataram: A National Song, a Complicated History Few patriotic songs in India carry the emotional power, historical prestige and political controversy of Vande Mataram. It became one of the great anthems of the freedom struggle. Yet its history is more complicated than the familiar patriotic invocation suggests. The keyContinue Reading

If Rahul Gandhi Has to Sit Outside a Police Station for Justice, What Hope Does an Ordinary Citizen Have?

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In: India, Indian Politics, Law and Legal, Security, Stories of Resilience

Rahul Gandhi is one of the most powerful opposition politicians in the country, leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, with direct access to Parliament, lawyers, journalists, political networks and national attention, yet has to fight for an FIR to be registered for an injured teenager. A 19-year-old studentContinue Reading