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How to Stop The Right from Weaponising Partition | Sugata Srinivasaraju

17 August 2022

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Partition has remained a distant event in India’s southern states. The region needs a new narrative to counter the Right’s attempts to use that period to stoke rage and sow division

The Times of India

by Sugata Srinivasaraju

In the past few days, there has been so much remembrance and celebration. The remembrance had to do with the traumatic circumstances under which India’s Partition happened on the eve of freedom, and freedom itself was a cause of celebration. This creates an impression of tragedy and freedom being intertwined. If freedom were to be a hunchback, then pain made it so.

Since last year, a certain sequence has been established by the Union government in which an extraordinary [ . . . ]

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