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Photo of iron pillar in Bharatpur fort falsely shared to claim Mughals’ ‘Hindu ancestry’

Vansh Shah2nd March 2023

The Qutub Minar is a UNESCO world heritage site in South Delhi. The name literally means victory tower. Qutbu’d-Din Aibak laid the foundation of this monument in 1199 AD and…

EAM S Jaishankar gets it wrong; BBC made several documentaries, podcasts on 1984 Sikh riots

Indradeep Bhattacharyya24th February 202313th July 2023

On February 21, external affairs minister S Jaishankar gave an interview to ANI journalist Smita Prakash on the 42nd episode of the multimedia news agency’s show ‘ANI Podcast with Smita…

No, artwork showing man sitting at computer is not from ancient India

Shinjinee Majumder31st January 202331st January 2023

An image of an apparently ancient sculpture is viral with the claim that it was made in India 1,400 years ago during the time of a Pallava King. The sculpture…

Who gave the title ‘Mahatma’ to MK Gandhi? Certainly not the British

Kalim Ahmed20th January 2023

The image of a letter from a book has been widely circulating on social media and on Whatsapp with the claim that it is the copy of the memorandum through…

Photo of 18th Century Zulu prince shared as Bhima Koregaon war hero

Shinjinee Majumder6th January 2023

An image purportedly showing a Mahar soldier who fought the Battle of Koregaon on January 1, 1818, is being circulated as a way of honouring the auspicious day. The image…

Was Nehru a ‘citizen of London’? Video viral with misleading claim

Archit21st September 202221st September 2022

The UK’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away last week. In the backdrop of this, a clip of Jawaharlal Nehru at a public event is being shared on social…

Fact-check: Did Brahmins play a role in key events of Dr Ambedkar’s life?

Archit11th August 2022

In April 2021, user TrueIndology made a series of claims regarding Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s childhood, education, and how he gained the surname on the microblogging platform Koo, India’s alternative…

Did Teesta Setalvad’s great-grandfather give ‘clean chit’ to Gen Dyer for Jallianwala massacre?

Kalim Ahmed & Abhishek Kumar28th June 202228th June 2022

A day after the Supreme Court upheld the findings of a special investigation team (SIT) that cleared Prime Minister Narendra Modi of alleged complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots, the…

Fact-check: Did JRD Tata write “Nehru stabbed me in the back” after nationalisation of Tata Airlines?

Archit21st October 2021

Tata Sons made the winning bid of Rs 18,000 crore for Air India, the airline founded by JRD Tata in 1932. Back then it was known as Tata Air Services. In…

Did Savarkar write mercy petitions on Gandhi’s advice as claimed by Rajnath Singh?

Pooja Chaudhuri13th October 202114th October 2021

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday claimed that Hindu Mahasabha leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar filed mercy petitions before the British government following Mahatma Gandhi’s advice. Singh was speaking at the…

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India vs Bharat: BJP’s sudden U-turn & why the ‘British named us India’ theory is a distortion of history

Karnataka BJP’s double whammy: Tamil heroes on Modi welcome gate, false claim on Tipu death