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Indian Intelligence Read the Bose Family's Mail After 1947. No File I Found Shows Nehru Ordered It. Eight Netaji Claims, Tested One by One.

Indian Intelligence Read the Bose Family's Mail After 1947

Special 64 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Public

In 1985 the CIA Told the White House Moscow Paid Up to 40% of Congress MPs. It Named No MP. No Indian Government Has Inquired.

The CIA Said Moscow Paid Up to 40% of Congress MPs

Special 43 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Public

Indian soldiers on patrol during the 1962 border war beside the words “Classified for 63 years.” — the Henderson Brooks–Bhagat Report of 1963

India Lost a War in 1962. You Still Can't Read the Report

Defence / Government Records · Public Investigation

8.1 Million Sterilised in 12 Months, 1,774 Death Complaints. India's Own Inquiry Printed It All in 1978. What Happened After 1980?

8.1 Million Sterilised in 12 Months: What Happened After

Politics / Justice / Institutions · Public Investigation

The Boys in the Files: What Washington's Own Reports Say About Bacha Bazi, From Its Afghan Allies to the Taliban

The Boys in the Files: Bacha Bazi in Washington's Reports

human-rights · Public Investigation

Twelve Interfaith Couples Asked for Protection. Here Is What the Court Said

Twelve Interfaith Couples Asked the Court for Protection

court-order / religion-politics · Public Investigation

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Who Pays the Cockroaches? Ten Questions the Cockroach Janta Party Has Not Fully Answered

Who Pays the Cockroaches? Ten Unanswered Questions

Special 75 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Quit Over the Hindu Code Bill. The President, Nehru Wrote, Hinted at Refusing Assent. Nehru Shelved It, Then Passed Most of It in Four Acts. Betrayal? No Document Proves It.

Ambedkar Quit Over the Hindu Code Bill

Special 74 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Shah Bano Won ₹179.20 a Month. Within 391 Days, Parliament Shut the Door She Had Used. The Courts Took 38 Years to Prise It Open.

Shah Bano Won ₹179.20 a Month. Parliament Shut the Door

Special 73 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Arrested in Bhopal, Flown Out on a State Plane the Same Day. Forty-Two Years On, No Government Has Published a Written Order Saying Who Let Warren Anderson Go.

Arrested in Bhopal, Flown Out on a State Plane the Same Day

Special 72 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

2,733 Sikhs Killed in Delhi in One Week. Ten Inquiries, Two SITs, One Leader Convicted and Jailed for Life. What the Government's Own Files Say.

2,733 Sikhs Killed in Delhi in One Week: The Record

Special 71 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

12 June 1975: The Judge Threw Out Most Charges Against Indira Gandhi and Upheld Two. Then Parliament Rewrote the Law Beneath Them.

12 June 1975: The Judge, the Two Charges, the Rewritten Law

Special 70 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

"There Has Been No Loss," Nehru Told Parliament in April 1951. Six Weeks Earlier, Privately: "We Were Rather Badly Caught." The Jeeps and Mundhra.

"There Has Been No Loss," Nehru Told Parliament in 1951

Special 69 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Sixteen Months In, Nehru Rewrote India's Free-Speech Clause. A Year Earlier, Four Days After Two Weeklies Beat the State, His Private Letter Spoke of "a Very Virulent Communalist Organ" and "a Communist Paper"

Sixteen Months In, Nehru Rewrote the Free-Speech Clause

Special 68 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

In 1959 Delhi Dismissed India's First Elected Communist Government. The Night Before, Nehru Wrote It Was "Not a Good Precedent". Nine Claims, One Standard.

In 1959 Delhi Dismissed India's First Elected Communist Govt

Special 67 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Nehru Took Kashmir to the UN at Mountbatten's Encouragement, Patel Steered Article 370, and Nehru's Statement to Parliament Did Not Mention His Own Note

Nehru Took Kashmir to the UN, Patel Steered Article 370

Special 66 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Nehru Did Not Give China India's Security Council Seat. I Checked. He Did Turn Down Two Feelers, Then Told Parliament There Was "No Offer".

Nehru Did Not Give China India's Security Council Seat

Special 65 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

A. Revanth Reddy seated, beside the words “Revanth Reddy: The File. A tape. A Supreme Court wall. Eleven cases. No verdict.”

Revanth Reddy: The File on Telangana's Chief Minister

Special 45 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ghazwa-e-Hind: Three Short Reports, Two Graded Weak. Named Terror Groups Recruit On It. India's Muslim Scholars Took It Apart.

Ghazwa-e-Hind: Three Short Reports, Two Graded Weak

Special 44 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Warned That in Politics Hero-Worship Is "a Sure Road to Degradation." Since 1990 Party After Party Has Raised Him Higher. I Tested Him Too: On Hinduism, Six of His Claims Fail the Texts. Here's the Record

Ambedkar Warned Against Hero-Worship. I Tested Him Too

Special 42 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Admired Christ, Defended the Missions Against Gandhi, Then Chose the Buddha. His "Denationalise" Line Came From a Proposed Mahasabha Deal

Ambedkar Admired Christ, Then Chose the Buddha

Special 41 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar on Islam: "Brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims Only," "Hindu Raj… the Greatest Calamity," and the Malabar "Jehad" Line He Never Wrote

Ambedkar on Islam: What He Wrote, What He Never Wrote

Special 40 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Renounced Hinduism and Wrote Down Why: From the 1927 Manusmriti Bonfire to "Worthless" Vedas and the 22 Vows of 1956

Ambedkar Renounced Hinduism and Wrote Down Why

Special 39 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Was Not a Quit India Freedom Fighter. In 1942 He Sat in the Viceroy's Council That Jailed Its Leaders

Ambedkar Was Not a Quit India Freedom Fighter

Special 38 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Ambedkar Said "I Was a Hack." Minutes Later the Home Minister Told Him: "You Had Drafted This Constitution." The Hack Line Is Only Half.

Ambedkar Said "I Was a Hack." The Hack Line Is Only Half

Special 37 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Pawan Kalyan Listed Eight Criminal Cases Under Oath in April 2024, No Charge Framed in Any. Then a Lake, a Laddu and a Rumour, Each Tested Against the Documents. Investigation thumbnail

Pawan Kalyan: Eight Cases Under Oath, No Charge Framed

Special 36 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

AI-assisted editorial composite of N. Chandrababu Naidu before an illustrative industrial backdrop and red-bound case files

Chandrababu Naidu: 53 Days in Custody, Not One Trial

Special 35 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

Jagan's Cases: 11 Chargesheets, 15 Years, and Not One Day of Trial. Who Held the Clock? You Forgot. I Didn't.

Jagan's Cases: 11 Chargesheets, 15 Years, No Trial

Special 34 · Politics / Justice / Institutions · Research Access

The "Conversion Machine" Claim About Andhra Pradesh, Checked. The Census Counted Fewer Christians in 2011. YSR's Government Funded Christian Pilgrimage, Banned Other Faiths' Preaching at Tirumala. K.A. Paul Sued YSR.

The "Conversion Machine" Claim About Andhra, Checked

Special 05 · court-order / religion-politics · Research Access

An American Database Marks 2,033 of India's 2,263 Communities "Unreached" for Church Planting. Most Indians Have Never Seen It. I Read It.

A US Database Marks 2,033 Indian Communities "Unreached"

Special 04 · court-order / religion-politics · Research Access

You Heard "Arabian Dancing Boys". Wrong Country. What Nine Years of U.S. Government Reports Recorded in Afghanistan Says About What Governments Did Not Do.

You Heard "Arabian Dancing Boys". Wrong Country.

Special 02 · Human Rights · Research Access