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JPS’s distinctive capacity was to reveal the entrails of power but also to unravel counter-power as civil society, as sangat (the congregation) and swaraj.

Antiquarians, politicians, media professionals and even godmen have joined in to present their own version of historical events, especially regarding the golden ancient India and the volatile Muslim rule, to suit their present aspirations. This is possibly an indicator of the post- truth age where a heady mixture of fantasy, entrenched beliefs and convenient portions of historical facts in the mind become more important than the facts themselves. What happened is overshadowed by what we wish to have happened

Historian Niharranjan Ray was born in Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh

However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.