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Padmavati and the Unsung Heroines of Indian History
Rani Padmavati wasn’t the only victim of collateral damage between warring, ambitious, and powerful men, though she is the one we have chosen to remember and revere.
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Why the Poet Mirza Ghalib is the Most Honest Metaphor for an India Divided Over CAA
While India’s early struggle for Independence hardly ever, if at all, reflected in Mirza Ghalib’s mainstream poetry, he recorded the events in his Persian diary Dastambu (bouquet) and the letters he wrote. He was dependent on the British for his income, but at the same time he was sympathetic toward his countrymen. In today’s times, he would be labelled a fence-sitter.
