Aparna Vaidik

Decolonisation much? Renaming of Port Blair speaks of different baggage

What is being imposed in the name of celebrating or honouring the memory of the Cholas is a hegemonic cartographic imagination of a grand and luminous ancient Hindu empire

How the British would use Muslims to inflict torture on Hindu revolutionaries

In her new book, the historian and writer does a deep dive on the infamous Lahore Conspiracy Case and its principal martyrs — Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru—who belonged to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) — and the kind of torture techniques the state employed to break down political prisoners

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