Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Assam (photo: @bharatjodo/X)

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Herald View: The battle of their lives, but not without hope

Muslim schoolgirls protest in Jaipur against BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya's remarks against hijab, calling out 'Baba maafi mangega (the Baba must apologise)' (screengrab from a video shared by @NargisBano70/X)

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A steep descent from secular heights

A typical street in the Ayodhya that used to be (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Power of symbols, symbols of power: ancient Ayodhya makes way for designer Ayodhya

Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) the perfect disciple to realise Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya's vision for the BJP and for India? (image: National Herald archives)

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The BJP's promise of ‘integral humanism’

Front pages of three national newspapers in English—(l to r) Times of India, Indian Express and Hindustan Times—on the morning of 22 January 2024 (image: National Herald)

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Their master's voice: The media circus around Ayodhya

Indira Bhawan at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie

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A new low for the IAS

The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (photo: MMRDA)

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Mumbai’s landsharks show their teeth

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Why world's 'fastest growing economy' cannot afford pensions for its elderly

The Padma awards have often invited charges of bias

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Regional and electoral push for Padma awards this year

Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India (and founder of the National Herald), thought of himself as the 'First Servant of India' (image courtesy @UWCforYouth/X)

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"Our common allegiance is to India": Nehru's first radio address to independent India

Dr B.R. Ambedkar presenting the final draft of the Constitution to Dr Rajendra Prasad on 25 November 1949 (photo: Wikipedia)

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Re-discover the Preamble, and know that toilets stand for ‘fraternity’

Redevelopment as a replacement project: (left) the iconic image of kar sevaks demolishing the Babri Masjid, vs model of a futuristic new Ayodhya mosque shorn of all Indo-Islamic architectural inflection (photo: National Herald archives)

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Herald View: In Ayodhya, the birth of a temple, the death of a culture

Screengrab from lawyer Suranya Aiyar's statement on her 'Protest Fast against (the) January 22 Production' in Ayodhya, around the Ram Temple (courtesy @suranyaaiyar3853/YouTube)

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"I condemn & repudiate what is being done in the name of Hinduism in Ayodhya"