Watch: 'Classified' Country - Burying India's History in Secrecy?

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The BJP government says no to making public the 1962 war report citing national security. From 1948 to 1984, several official documents still remain "classified". On We The People, we debate: Is India's contemporary history buried in secrecy? Should the military have final say on declassifying war histories? And why hasn't India followed the global example of mandatory declassification of secrets after a safe cut-off period?

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