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History is an important “issue” because it goes beyond the confines of academia and everyone has an opinion on it. It helps in creating identities. Identities which are often contested and imagined. The relationship between history and nationalism is like – as Eric Hobsbawm would have put it – “what poppy is to an opium addict”; it serves a purpose. What we are today has its roots in history and that is why history as a discipline is always on the radar of political regimes. In India, as lay people we do not read enough and often imbibe hearsay, WhatsApp forwards and political speeches as history and condemn historians for their “prejudice” in attempting to write academic histories.

https://thewire.in/history/are-we-moving-towards-a-medieval-understanding-of-history 

History never remains static; it is ever changing. Rewriting history is natural and essential. With every new interpretation or evidence, history changes.

And it is not uncommon for different political regimes to have different perspectives on history and to try to influence the historical narrative in the curriculum.

History should be understood in its totality, that is, with its context. Totality should not be confused with the “entirety” of the past, which is virtually impossible to achieve.

by Eshan Sharma

28/04/2023

Adani Power agrees to sign supplementary PPA with Haryana Hitender Rao Mar 02, 2023 0  https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/adani-power-agrees-to-sign-supplementary-ppa-with-haryana-101677691257073.html  The development assumes significance in view of early onset of summer and rise in the demand for electricity. The state had experienced a deficit of 2,570 MW in April 2022 and 1,786 MW in May 2022 due to non-availability of power from APL, Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd and Faridabad Gas Power Plant. The state had to buy costly power at the rates 11.55 per unit in April 2022, ₹8.13 per unit in May 2022 and ₹7.30 per unit in June 2022. ..

The Council of Ministers had on June 27, 2022, approved the supplementary PPA for supply of about 1,096 MW power generated from domestic coal at ₹3.20 per unit (agreed tariff of ₹2.94 plus about 26 paisa). The cost, however, is likely to increase to ₹3.48 per unit. The state will though forego 224 MW power capacity at Haryana periphery.

2022 Redux: Adani Group will make most of Haryana’s long, hot summer https://www.adaniwatch.org/2022_redux_and_a_long_hot_summer_adani_group_will_make_most_of_haryana_s_power_crisis
Ayush Joshi & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Apr 28, 2023  This summer, Adani Power can officially supply less power to Haryana and get paid more for each unit, despite a Supreme Court judgment which said there is no justification for hiking tariffs.

Development: Between Cliché and Creativity,"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_wdd7D2iQk Shiv Visvanathan Azim Premji University
Jan 20, 2012 Shiv Visvanathan speaks on "Development: Between Cliché and Creativity," as part of the Azim Premji University Public Lecture Series
October 8, 2011
Shiv Visvanathan is Professor of Social Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad. His areas of research interest include Sociology of Science and Technology, Violence and Globalization, Corruption, Sociology of Disasters and Futures. Apart from extensive journal and newspaper publications, his work includes Organizing for Science (1985) and A Carnival of Science (1997), both published by Oxford University Press. He has also co-edited Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption 1947-1997 (1999), published by Banyan Books.