30 Years After The Tiananmen Massacre: The Troubled History of The Goddess of Democracy

The 33-foot high Goddess of Democracy statue unveiled in Tiananmen Square (Photo: @SalfordUni_PCH)

When the People’s Liberation Army cleared the protest on June 4, the statue was quickly felled and crushed by tanks. But replicas soon appeared in Hong Kong and other places.

‘In Politics, Bhakti Is A Sure Road To Degradation And To Eventual Dictatorship’: On Ambedkar Jayanti, 11 BR Ambedkar Quotes India Must Remember

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“However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad.”

Our Constitution, the Corner Stone of Indian Democracy, is Violated by the Narendra Modi-led Government With Impunity

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The invocation of cultural nationalism propagated by BJP and RSS negates the creative nationalism fashioned during the freedom struggle.

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