Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi writes on history, culture and politics, with a clear focus on preserving authentic narratives and challenging distortions.
Culture

Turn it down: Badrinath is not a concert venue

There are some places where silence is not an absence of sound but itself a form of worship. Places where one does not go...
Society

Jamui was not ‘moral policing’

What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home safely? Study. Come back before dark. Stay on the main road....
Politics

What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy

In the humid evening air of Pune’s AISSMS College ground on 22 August 2026, thousands of young women gathered under the banner of Congress’s...
Culture

Being Gen Z isn’t a free pass to do anything

In the high-altitude, strategically sensitive terrain of Ladakh, near the Minimarg checkpoint on the Kargil route, a viral video captured something far more disturbing...
Religion

How India celebrates menstruation

Once every year, at Kamakhya, one of the most profound celebrations of womanhood unfolds. The doors of the temple close. Not because of the...
Religion

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women? I am sure most of us have come across this line at some...
Society

The unanswered question in the NCERT ‘Dancing Girl’ controversy

If you happen to visit the National Museum in Delhi someday. Try to locate one glass case in the Harappan gallery. If you’ll get...
Culture

The ‘Rs 370 biryani’ remark reveals why modern relationships are failing

What is the least a man should hope for after a date? A memorable conversation? A few genuine laughs? The possibility that the girl...
Books

How did the Muslims justify the destruction of Hindu temples

In his celebrated historical work Kitab al-Yamini, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbarul-Utbi, who served as the secretary to Mahmud of Ghazni, provides...
Religion

The truth about St Xavier that we must know

There are over 230 educational institutions if no less in the name of St Francis Xavier, popularly known as St Xavier, across India. Xavier...
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