When Mohandas Gandhi’s death shattered the long-term dreams of two-nation theorists
2 years, 1 month ago

When Mohandas Gandhi’s death shattered the long-term dreams of two-nation theorists

Firstpost  

The previous episode of this series concluded with a call to take Mohandas Gandhi’s words at face value in examining the validity of this equation: Gandhi = India’s freedom from British rule. There is a reason why Gandhi’s contemporaries like Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo, Sankaran Nair, et al., repeatedly and accurately criticized Gandhi’s serial follies. In early 1920, Gandhi appointed himself the supreme leader at a public meeting in Bengal in so many words: …so long as you choose to keep me as your leader…you must accept my conditions, you must accept dictatorship and the discipline of martial law The dumbfounded audience comprising top nationalist leaders and freedom fighters and public-spirited men who had been moulded by the likes of Tilak couldn’t believe what they had just heard. Bipin Chandra Pal fired the first salvo against Gandhi’s leadership in a letter to Motilal Nehru: Blind reverence for Gandhiji’s leadership would kill people’s freedom of thought and would paralyse by the deadweight of unreasoning reverence their individual conscience.

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‘Gandhi dreamt of building a strong nation’
1 month, 4 weeks ago

‘Gandhi dreamt of building a strong nation’

The Hindu  

Deputy Commissioner Divya Prabhu G.R.J. She was speaking after paying floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary and releasing a book, Gandhi Dari, brought out by the Information Department at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Dharwad on Thursday. Along with leading the freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi also initiated social revolution by addressing issues and social maladies that troubled …

From the India Today archives (1976) | Is the Mahatma fading into history?
2 months ago

From the India Today archives (1976) | Is the Mahatma fading into history?

India Today  

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has always been an enigma. Added to this was Gandhi’s concept of natural harmony based on a step-back into history. Instead of this annual ritual of looking for the needle in Gandhi’s haystack, let’s begin to look for it in our own haystack. To serve Gandhi, to serve the India that Gandhi fashioned for us, the October …

Gandhi's Timeless Wisdom: A Call for Truth in Troubled Times
5 months, 1 week ago

Gandhi's Timeless Wisdom: A Call for Truth in Troubled Times

Hindustan Times  

The article explores the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in the context of the current wars and global issues. It argues that Gandhi's ideas of truth and non-violence remain relevant in the face of violence and war. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding Gandhi's discourse beyond his historical context and the limitations of conventional approaches to truth. The piece reflects …

‘Mahatma became popular only after Gandhi movie’: Congress attacks PM Modi over his comment
9 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Mahatma became popular only after Gandhi movie’: Congress attacks PM Modi over his comment

The Hindu  

The world view taught in the shakhas of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh doesn’t allow one to understand Mahatma Gandhi as the RSS follows the path of his assassin Nathuram Godse, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday. In India, crores of people follow the path of Gandhi ji, that of truth and non-violence,” Mr. Gandhi said in a video posted …

Martyrs’ Day 2024: Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary
1 year, 1 month ago

Martyrs’ Day 2024: Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary

Live Mint  

January 30 marks the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi—the father of the nation—who was assassinated on this day by Nathuram Vinayak Godse in 1948, just five months and 15 days after the country gained independence from British Rule. On the 76th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, here’s a look at some facts about Bapu: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—the legendary advocate of …

How Gandhi used swaraj and satyagraha in India’s quest for freedom: Book Excerpt from ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’ by Dennis Dalton
1 year, 5 months ago

How Gandhi used swaraj and satyagraha in India’s quest for freedom: Book Excerpt from ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’ by Dennis Dalton

The Hindu  

On Gandhi’s birth anniversary, a look at how he understood the critical role traditional Indian language and symbols played in the national movement. Dennis Dalton’s Indian Ideas of Freedom is an illuminating study of the lens through which freedom was perceived by thinkers such as Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. None of Gandhi’s terms, however, were …

A very different conception of ‘Ram Rajya’
1 year, 11 months ago

A very different conception of ‘Ram Rajya’

The Hindu  

April 07, 2023 12:16 am | Updated March 04, 2024 12:02 pm IST It was the longest-serving Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh sarsangchalak, M.S. Instead of Mahatma Gandhi’s moral lessons in favour of peace, Savarkar advocated the “political virility” of Hindutva, an idea which seems to have found full flower in today’s foot-soldiers of that doctrine. Hindutva ideologue Savarkar, whom Mr. Modi …

Mahatma Gandhi 75th Death Anniversary: 10 Quotes From the Father of the Nation That Will Inspire You
2 years, 1 month ago

Mahatma Gandhi 75th Death Anniversary: 10 Quotes From the Father of the Nation That Will Inspire You

News 18  

MAHATMA GANDHI 75th DEATH ANNIVERSARY: Our Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was a source of inspiration for people all around the world. The insurmountable contribution that this incredible man had done and the legacy that he had created can be best summarised in the words of none other than Albert Einstein who was of the opinion – “Generations to …

A betrayal of the very idea of the Mahatma
2 years, 2 months ago

A betrayal of the very idea of the Mahatma

The Hindu  

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination by a Hindu fanatic who thought the Mahatma was too soft on Muslims. Savarkar, whom Mr. Modi has described as one of his heroes, had expressed contempt for Gandhiji’s ‘perverse doctrine of non-violence and truth’ and claimed it ‘was bound to destroy the power of the country’. But Prime Minister …

Mahatma Gandhi's ideals must continue to guide actions in ensuring peace and stability around the world: Jaishankar
2 years, 3 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi's ideals must continue to guide actions in ensuring peace and stability around the world: Jaishankar

The Hindu  

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on December 14 said that as the world grapples with violence, armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies, Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals must continue to guide actions in ensuring peace and stability around the world. “Today, as the world grapples with violence, armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies, Gandhi ideals must continue to guide our actions in ensuring peace …

'Gandhian Values Becoming Relevant': PM Says Mahatma's Ideas Have Answers to Present Day Challenges
2 years, 4 months ago

'Gandhian Values Becoming Relevant': PM Says Mahatma's Ideas Have Answers to Present Day Challenges

News 18  

Speaking highly of the relevance of “Gandhian values”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday emphasized that ideas propagated by Mahatma Gandhi have answers for modern day challenges like climate change. Reiterating his stand on the importance of Gandhian ideas, the Prime Minister said “Gandhian values are becoming very relevant”. PM Modi said that Mahatma Gandhi saw khadi as a “tool …

Mahatma Gandhi\'s ideas have answers to today\'s challenges, says Modi
2 years, 4 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi\'s ideas have answers to today\'s challenges, says Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

Dindigul : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi have answers for modern day challenges, including climate crisis, and asserted his government was inspired by Gandhi to work towards its self-reliance goal of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'. In his address at the 36th convocation of the Gandhigram Rural Institute here, the Prime Minister said “Gandhian values are …

Gandhi in the age of post-truth
2 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi in the age of post-truth

The Hindu  

This is a bi-annual ritual: the recalling of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2 and January 30. Two words that appear in bold letters when we think of Gandhi are ‘truth’ and ‘non-violence’. With regards to truth and non-violence, it can be said without doubt that the intellectual, emotional and physical processes that Gandhi put in place were truly unmatched. …

Excerpt: Inheriting Gandhi: Influences, Activisms
2 years, 6 months ago

Excerpt: Inheriting Gandhi: Influences, Activisms

Hindustan Times  

It is widely known that Gandhi, for most of the long period of the freedom movement that he led, was indifferent to the claims of what has come to be called ‘secularism’. … …The beginnings of an answer lie in a conviction that Gandhi repeatedly asserted, viz., that Indian history and society and culture were characterized by an unselfconscious pluralism …

A growing disengagement with Gandhi’s ideas
2 years, 8 months ago

A growing disengagement with Gandhi’s ideas

The Hindu  

The June 2022 issue of Antim Jan, a magazine published by the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, stood out for a reason. In an article in Antim Jan, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Goel, the vice-chairman of GSDS, tries to place Savarkar on the same footing as Mahatma Gandhi — “Savarkar’s place in history and stature in freedom struggle is …

Mahatma Gandhi, the out-of-the-box thinker
3 years, 1 month ago

Mahatma Gandhi, the out-of-the-box thinker

The Hindu  

The 74th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death provides us an opportunity to think about his character and contributions as an important figure of world history. But we can go even further and say that for Gandhi, this process of self-transformation should influence not only the inner life of the individual but also public life. It goes without saying that remembering …

A moral compass called Gandhi
3 years, 5 months ago

A moral compass called Gandhi

The Hindu  

Why should Mohandas K. Gandhi’s autobiography be published over and over again? A publisher would say: ‘Because it sells.’ The bookseller: ‘Because it brings a kind of clean air to our shelves.’ A senior buyer: ‘Because my old copy of it is dog-eared and I want to own a fresh edition, printed on strong paper, with its text easy to …

Gandhi Jayanti: 5 Books on Mahatma Gandhi Every Indian Must Read
3 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi Jayanti: 5 Books on Mahatma Gandhi Every Indian Must Read

News 18  

Born on October 2, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi, was a freedom fighter and spiritual leader of the country. On Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary, let’s take a look at the list of books which one can read to know more about the legendary freedom fighter. Read: Happy Gandhi Jayanti 2021: Images, Wishes, Quotes, Messages and WhatsApp Greetings to Share with Your Loved …

Reading Gandhi as a lesson of political maturity
3 years, 5 months ago

Reading Gandhi as a lesson of political maturity

The Hindu  

Nearly 74 years after his death, Gandhi remains the most widely known political leader of modern India. reading Gandhi as a lesson of political maturity is an ethical imperative. In other words, maturity for Gandhi was a state of mind and a mode of being, where one had the capacity to form one’s life in a social sphere. Gandhi’s acknowledgment …

Gandhi Jayanti 2021: 10 inspirational quotes by India's Father of the Nation
3 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi Jayanti 2021: 10 inspirational quotes by India's Father of the Nation

Hindustan Times  

October 2 marks the birth of India's Father of the Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi as he is popularly known for devoting his entire life to free our country from Britain's colonial rule. Referred fondly as Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an opportunity for Indians across the world to reflect on his teachings, especially the values of non-violence …

‘Gandhi has become all things to all people’
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Gandhi has become all things to all people’

Live Mint  

On 23 December 1926, a man named Abdul Rashid murdered the Arya Samaj leader Swami Shraddhanand, a freedom fighter who was close to M.K. Apart from the grief he felt at the news of Shraddhanand’s violent death, Gandhi’s primary concern, as scholar Jyotirmaya Sharma writes in his new book, Elusive Non-Violence: The Making And Unmaking Of Gandhi’s Religion Of Ahimsa, …

Its Power of Resolving Crisis is What Makes Gandhism Relevant in Today’s Times
4 years, 5 months ago

Its Power of Resolving Crisis is What Makes Gandhism Relevant in Today’s Times

News 18  

The essence of ‘Gandhi-ism’ is peace and nonviolence, extending but not limiting itself to goodness, creative thinking, and efficient admin. Certain quarters may subscribe to the idea that ‘Gandhism’ is not practicable in today’s world. In such a clime, ‘Gandhism’ opens a window of fresh wisdom which has the power to resolve this crisis, the ability to dissolve differences, capability …

Becoming a Gandhian
4 years, 5 months ago

Becoming a Gandhian

Hindustan Times  

Mahatma Gandhi, as this newspaper’s editorial said on October 2, 2019, to mark the beginning of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations, was the greatest Indian ever. But Hardiman wrote, “Gandhi’s method succeeded because of the relentless pressure it put on rulers — forcing them to give in to mass demands.” This, then, became an example for other political and civil …

Gandhi: A determined chronicler
4 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi: A determined chronicler

Hindustan Times  

Growing up in the princely state of Porbandar, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s older brother, Laxmidas, did not imagine that the youngster, who did passably well in his studies and exhibited a love for theatre, would ever become a journalist. In 1903, he started Indian Opinion, which “regularly published news about African grievances about restricted land rights and daily petty discrimination and …

Gandhi: An anathema to the ‘left-liberal’ establishment
4 years, 11 months ago

Gandhi: An anathema to the ‘left-liberal’ establishment

Op India  

Introduction In India, the Left-Liberal establishment has always maintained firm control over the institutions that consist of critical positions in professions such as journalism and universities. And we Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.” In fact, he adds that only those who considered themselves ‘civilized’ and ‘superior’ persons “imagine that India is many nations” and not one unified …

AnSI explores ‘the Anthropologist’ Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary
5 years, 2 months ago

AnSI explores ‘the Anthropologist’ Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary

The Hindu  

As part of the commemoration of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, the Anthropological Survey of India has dedicated an entire issue of its journal, published last month, on what it calls “Gandhian insights into applied anthropology”. Besides Professor Nichlolas’s essay, there are essays by David R. Syiemlieh, historian and former Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission of India, titled Mahatma …

Mohandas or the Mahatama? Assessing Gandhi’s legacy at 150
5 years, 5 months ago

Mohandas or the Mahatama? Assessing Gandhi’s legacy at 150

ABC  

2 October 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth. Outside of India, some believe that Mahatma — a title meaning “Great Soul” — was Gandhi’s given name. Modi’s complicity in the 2002 Gujarat pogroms and the ongoing brutal annexation of Kashmir confirm Gandhi’s greatest fear for his country — that India would see “English rule without the …

Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Mahatma Gandhi: The pulse of a legacy in an age of heroics
5 years, 5 months ago

Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Mahatma Gandhi: The pulse of a legacy in an age of heroics

The Hindu  

Birla House, New Delhi. “He sat down,” records Pyarelal, Gandhi’s biographer, “felt the pulse and fancied it was still beating feebly.” Pyarelal goes on to say that a doctor at hand, Dr. B. P. Bhargava, examining the pulse and the eye reflexes, said slowly to Patel that death had occurred 10 minutes earlier. And because something in many — not …

Mahatma Gandhi 150th birth anniversary: Gandhi has not spoken his last word
5 years, 5 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi 150th birth anniversary: Gandhi has not spoken his last word

The Hindu  

The 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi provides an opportunity to reflect once again on how nonviolence can contribute to the survival of our planet. If Gandhi remains relevant, it is because he adopted a distinctive method which was to define politics not as the conquest of power, but as the art of organising society nonviolently. The fact that Gandhi believed …

Essential reading on MK Gandhi
5 years, 5 months ago

Essential reading on MK Gandhi

Hindustan Times  

Gandhi after his release from prison, 1924. The first account that I read of Gandhi was through the first three volumes of Desai’s diaries, written in Gujarati, of their time together as prisoners at the Yerawada central prison. It also humanised their otherwise stern companion who had come to us in school text books as an “iron man” — the …

A note from Pakistan: Why Gandhi matters beyond India’s borders
5 years, 5 months ago

A note from Pakistan: Why Gandhi matters beyond India’s borders

Hindustan Times  

Nation-states write their own histories. Both these figures – celebrated and decorated as they are with portraits everywhere – are irrelevant in today’s subcontinent This is what makes Gandhi a unique figure beyond the precincts of Indian national imagination. Watch: The Mahatma of Sabarmati Ashram | Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary The last time I met Mushirul Hasan, the celebrated historian …

Two new books for young readers focus on how Gandhi is still relevant today
5 years, 5 months ago

Two new books for young readers focus on how Gandhi is still relevant today

The Hindu  

Being Gandhi by Paro Anand Chandrashekhar, the young protagonist, doesn’t quite see the point of Gandhi Jayanti. Funnily enough, Paro Anand says that initially she “didn’t think there was anything more to be said on Gandhi, especially for young people that had not already been said.” But when her editor persisted, she decided to try but it took a few …

Gandhi’s legacy being ‘forgotten’ amid rise of far right in India
5 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi’s legacy being ‘forgotten’ amid rise of far right in India

Al Jazeera  

At New Delhi’s Gandhi Smriti, a poignant memorial site on the spot where India‘s revered freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated in 1948, visitors, noticeably more foreign than Indian, line up sombrely to offer homage. “Perhaps we have become a more consumerist and divisive society far removed from Gandhi’s teachings that such a world icon is neglected in his birthplace,” …

Religious pluralism and Gandhian values
5 years, 5 months ago

Religious pluralism and Gandhian values

Live Mint  

New Delhi:The image of a fanatical and violent Muslim has become a dominant stereotype since 11 September 2001. Through his “soft reading” of the Hindu scriptures, as also the texts of Christianity and Islam, Gandhi found a clarion call for active non-violence in all these religions. While Gandhi’s familiarity with Islam and his admiration for Prophet Muhammad are no secret, …

Gandhi’s impact on the Tamil psyche
5 years, 6 months ago

Gandhi’s impact on the Tamil psyche

Hindustan Times  

By successfully transferring in 1894 the indenture of Balasundaram, a labourer, from a violent European master who had broken his teeth, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi became a saviour in the eyes of thousands of other Indian labourers in Natal, South Africa. The 1924 satyagraha in Kerala’s Vaikom — led by TK Madhavan, a journalist and supporter of social reformer, Narayana Guru, …

Ramchandra Gandhi prophesies with eerie accuracy in an an imagined conversation
5 years, 10 months ago

Ramchandra Gandhi prophesies with eerie accuracy in an an imagined conversation

The Hindu  

It was a few weeks after NITI Aayog was shut down. Suddenly he announced, like an absent-minded prophet, “When policies become exclusive, India will turn genocidal.” I love Ramu’s aphoristic prose but always found it cryptic. He confidently predicted that the survey had identified at least four million people as outsiders.” According to Ramu, the man “sounded like a magician …

Gandhiji: The Hindu's Editorial on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
5 years, 10 months ago

Gandhiji: The Hindu's Editorial on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

The Hindu  

Here is the full text of the editorial that was published on February 1, 1948 in The Hindu after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse in Delhi. For, as the Prime Minister of India has suggested in his broadcast, at no time in the long and chequered history of this great country were Gandhiji's wise counsel, courageous guidance, …

Seventy-one years later, Gandhi’s influence in India diminishes
6 years, 1 month ago

Seventy-one years later, Gandhi’s influence in India diminishes

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On a mild winter day, Mohandas K Gandhi, more …

Limits of nationalism as Gandhi, Tagore envisioned it
6 years, 5 months ago

Limits of nationalism as Gandhi, Tagore envisioned it

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: One may see this as both a retrospective and prospective review. They unveil the setting, the letter-writing and the cable ‘wires’ being only a mode of self-expression, of profoundly troubling and changing times in pre-Independent India, in which as the author puts it, the letters exchanged, amid the “differing perceptions which they had of major national issues,” also throw …

Mahatma Gandhi's influence on Hindi cinema
6 years, 5 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi's influence on Hindi cinema

ABP News  

The Gandhi–Chaplin meeting provides an interesting anecdote for Indian history. According to a programme on BBC Radio 4, ‘Making History: Gandhi and Chaplin’, the Mahatma was in London to attend the Second Round Table Conference and had refused to stay in a West End hotel, instead choosing to be with people from the working class at Kingsley Hall in East …

Gandhi and his autobiography will be needed as long as we desire to rise above our failings: Tridip Suhrud
6 years, 7 months ago

Gandhi and his autobiography will be needed as long as we desire to rise above our failings: Tridip Suhrud

Firstpost  

Mohandas Gandhi is difficult to unremember, let alone to expunge from the historical record. It is, therefore, to the credit of Suhrud’s critical edition to Gandhi’s autobiographical endeavour, My Experiments with Truth that even in operating with a text whose immortality has remained as facile as its author’s, it abdicates the two registers of memory to remember Gandhi differently. Before …

The apotheosis of Gandhi: A political project
6 years, 7 months ago

The apotheosis of Gandhi: A political project

Op India  

There is one particular song about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that never fails to make me laugh with derision. The song titled ‘Sabarmati ke Sant’ isn’t merely a gross overestimation of Gandhi’s contribution but a massive disrespect to every freedom fighter who contributed to India’s struggle for Independence. Here is a portion of the lyrics: “धरती पे लड़ी तूने अजब ढब …

Ramachandra Guha's new book on Gandhi to release in September; chronicles his role in freedom movement
6 years, 8 months ago

Ramachandra Guha's new book on Gandhi to release in September; chronicles his role in freedom movement

Firstpost  

The book will reveal Mahatma Gandhi to the readers just as he was understood by his contemporaries New Delhi: Renowned historian and author of several bestselling books, including the highly acclaimed India After Gandhi and India Before Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha has penned a new book on the father of the nation, which has just gone to the press and will …

Mahatma Gandhi on non-violence and democracy
7 years, 5 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi on non-violence and democracy

Al Jazeera  

Indians mark the 148th birth anniversary of Gandhi, who preached a message of tolerance and global unity. Indians are celebrating the 148th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the South Asian nation’s independence. The following quotes highlight Gandhi’s legacy of tolerance grounded in an expressed faith in human goodness: On peace: “Peace will not come out of a …

Gandhi should have given more time, attention to his wife, sons: Grandson
7 years, 10 months ago

Gandhi should have given more time, attention to his wife, sons: Grandson

India TV News  

Rajmohan Gandhi, noted public intellectual and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, says the "all-demanding and remarkably effective effort" of the Father of the Nation to realise his goal came at a price and he should have devoted more time and attention to his wife and sons. A flawless Gandhi would have been a superb husband and a superb father, in addition to …

Book Review \'Feroze-The Forgotten Gandhi\': Lost in shadows of history
7 years, 11 months ago

Book Review \'Feroze-The Forgotten Gandhi\': Lost in shadows of history

Deccan Chronicle  

Critics of the Nehru Gandhi family often point to their dominance in the public domain, with scores of institutions, schemes, neighbourhoods etc named after them. The wedding of Feroze and Indira on March 26, 1942, at Anand Bhawan, Allahabad Swedish journalist Bertik Falk has taken upon himself to bring him to our notice with his book, Feroze: The Forgotten Gandhi. …

Gandhi for our troubled times
8 years, 1 month ago

Gandhi for our troubled times

The Hindu  

I once asked my students at Jindal Global University about Mahatma Gandhi’s relevance in today’s India. Explaining his universal appeal Therefore, Gandhi’s success as a universal gadfly goes far beyond his national stature as the founding father of modern India. Also, let us not forget that Gandhi’s critique of modern civilisation in Hind Swaraj is one of the greatest Socratic …

Mahatma Gandhi's legacy will be debated for many years yet: Ramachandra Guha
8 years, 5 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi's legacy will be debated for many years yet: Ramachandra Guha

Firstpost  

2 October 2016 will mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 147th birth anniversary. September saw professors at the University of Ghana start an online petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from their campus in Accra because of what they describe as his “racist identity” as exemplified by his use of words such as “savages” and “kaffirs” to describe the indigenous population …

We all killed the Mahatma, or, why Rahul Gandhi should say sorry to RSS
8 years, 8 months ago

We all killed the Mahatma, or, why Rahul Gandhi should say sorry to RSS

Firstpost  

Should Rahul Gandhi decide to ignore the Supreme Court’s advice to apologise to the RSS and rest the case, he is sure to encounter truths that may not be palatable to him individually and his party collectively. He perhaps thinks that standing against the RSS and reopening one of the saddest events of independent India’s history — the assassination of …

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