How the Vande Mataram debate is being orchestrated to reignite communal cacophony
In portraying the 1937 abridgement as a cause of Partition, the government resurrects a Vande Mataram debate that Gandhi, Netaji, and others had long resolved—shifting
In portraying the 1937 abridgement as a cause of Partition, the government resurrects a Vande Mataram debate that Gandhi, Netaji, and others had long resolved—shifting

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