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Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, ‘Communal rewriting of history’.

— Arun Shourie Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

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Indian secularism consists of branding others communal.

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But they are the ones who have been distorting it in the first place – by suppressing the truth, by planting falsehoods.

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In a word, fatwas are the shariah in action.

But ‘India is just a geographical expression!’

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He speaks at length, that is, but scarcely touches on any of the specific matters that members had raised.

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