Idea of India: Rediscovering, Restructuring or Reinventing?
6 years, 11 months ago

Idea of India: Rediscovering, Restructuring or Reinventing?

Deccan Chronicle  

I had the privilege over the last one month of attending a couple of public discourses with many known intellectuals debating on whether India should reinvent its idea in totality or merely rediscover itself or go for restructuring. While the ruling Right Wing has been campaigning for a New India, as coined by Prime Minister Modi recently, and bashing Nehruvian idea of India, Rahul Gandhi recently organized a Save Constitution Rally and called for rediscovering the Nehruvian idea of India of unity in diversity. Even after 101 amendments, the Indian Constitution is still the beacon of Indian polity since it has handled diverse social contradictions, and ensured the rule of law, separation of power, independence of judiciary, and a strong Union in a federal polity: all of which, according to this lobby, are under threat in the right wing vision of New India. Historians among the rediscovery lobby points out that in 1923, the Hindutva focused idea of India presented by Savarkar was rejected for a syncretic vision. This lobby questions the right wing asking if Akhlaq's killing or Sambhulal killing Afroz or six men raping and killing 8-years old Asifa are signs of New India.

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Idea Of India Is The Constitution Of India : Senior Advocate Indira Jaising
10 months ago

Idea Of India Is The Constitution Of India : Senior Advocate Indira Jaising

Live Law  

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising, on May 29, while speaking at a National Conference Government Law College, Ernakulam, underscored the critical importance of upholding the constitution's principles. We can use our voice inside and outside the Court and it is our powerful voice, it is the work that we do with our feet that gives us the evolution of constitution that …

Opposition alliance will rebuild idea of India in Manipur: Rahul hits back at PM Modi
1 year, 8 months ago

Opposition alliance will rebuild idea of India in Manipur: Rahul hits back at PM Modi

The Hindu  

July 25, 2023 03:27 pm | Updated 03:27 pm IST - New Delhi Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the Opposition alliance, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on July 25 said “call us what you want”, but “we are INDIA” and “will rebuild the idea of India in Manipur”. PM Modi slammed the Indian National Developmental, …

Moving out of Leftist colonialism: How India's cultural revival can be of great benefit to all humanity
1 year, 11 months ago

Moving out of Leftist colonialism: How India's cultural revival can be of great benefit to all humanity

Firstpost  

India today, after 75 years of Independence, is again awakening to its own civilisational power and depth, no longer in the shadow of European politics and its ongoing wars Colonial rulers have been exposed for their cruel exploitation of numerous countries, peoples and cultures worldwide. Nehruvian liberal neocolonialism Under conjoined British education and Marxist views, a new elite arose in …

Why Rahul Gandhi’s Idea of India Just as a 'Union of States' Is Inadequate
2 years, 3 months ago

Why Rahul Gandhi’s Idea of India Just as a 'Union of States' Is Inadequate

The Quint  

However, the Marxist school has methodologically produced and instituted the narrative that India is not a nation but a territorial community without linguistic commonality, vivid economic and cultural disorientation, and a history of bourgeois domination. The idea that India is not a nation but a union of states isn't the first time it is being pushed solely by Congress MP …

Essay: Of Bharat, India and Hindustan
2 years, 6 months ago

Essay: Of Bharat, India and Hindustan

Hindustan Times  

There have, in recent years, been a number of books written by people with clear Hindu nationalist positions that present their critiques of liberal India. Another more recent book, titled India, that is Bharat by J Sai Deepak, is described by its publishers, Bloomsbury, as an exploration of European “colonial consciousness” on “Bharat as the successor state to the Indic …

Sunil Khilnani’s ‘The Idea Of India’ hasn’t aged gracefully
2 years, 7 months ago

Sunil Khilnani’s ‘The Idea Of India’ hasn’t aged gracefully

Live Mint  

In 2006, as I returned to India after spending a couple of years studying abroad, a friend advised me to pick up Sunil Khilnani’s The Idea Of India. “Mrs Gandhi flirted with religious sentiments and appeals,” as Khilnani writes, “hinting that the categories ‘non-Hindu’ and ‘anti-national’ overlapped.” The writing on the wall was abundantly clear. For liberals across the ideological …

How do we frame the battle for the ‘idea of India’?
2 years, 9 months ago

How do we frame the battle for the ‘idea of India’?

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 12, 2022 18:00 IST In a recent judgment on the GST Council, the Supreme Court noted that Indian federalism was a dialogue between cooperative federalism and uncooperative federalism. Next came the coalition phase, the high point of Indian federalism, where regional parties amassed massive power as “kingmakers” and helped push through substantial reforms in financial and administrative …

Questioning India’s ‘nationhood’ reflects Rahul Gandhi’s constitutional and historical ignorance
2 years, 10 months ago

Questioning India’s ‘nationhood’ reflects Rahul Gandhi’s constitutional and historical ignorance

Firstpost  

The Congress leader’s ‘India is not a nation’ statement exposes his long-held colonial beliefs and that he is still trapped and influenced by the colonial narrative A list of fundamental duties was added to the Indian Constitution by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976. On 21 May, when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reasserted his claim in London, first made in …

Is There a Nehruvian Idea of India? Look at Congress and You Will Know
3 years, 1 month ago

Is There a Nehruvian Idea of India? Look at Congress and You Will Know

News 18  

Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that you have invented a perpetual motion machine. So the parties which claim to uphold the old idea of India either exhaust themselves with one generation or transition into family based parties. The Nehruvian idea on the other hand, if it exists, has to be carried forward by a fourth or fifth …

Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India
3 years, 7 months ago

Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India

The Hindu  

At midnight on August 15, 1947, independent India was born as its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, proclaimed ‘a tryst with destiny.a moment.which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.’ With those words he launched India on …

Opening up the debate on the idea of India
4 years, 3 months ago

Opening up the debate on the idea of India

Live Mint  

What does it mean to be Indian, and what is the idea of India? While the buzz is indeed impressive, the book details thoughts that the authors first put down in the opinion pages of Mint seven years ago, making a call back then to debate the idea of a “new India”. As they did then, the authors want to …

Opinion | What is this ‘idea of India’ Rahul Gandhi talks about?
5 years, 8 months ago

Opinion | What is this ‘idea of India’ Rahul Gandhi talks about?

Live Mint  

On Wednesday, when Rahul Gandhi formally resigned as president of the Congress by issuing a public letter in English, he revealed that he does not have a talent for malice, which is a very useful gift in his profession. He said: “I have no hatred or anger towards the Bharatiya Janata Party, but every living cell in my body instinctively …

Nehru promoted inclusive nationalism: Nayantara Sahgal
6 years ago

Nehru promoted inclusive nationalism: Nayantara Sahgal

The Quint  

New Delhi, March 30 It was Jawaharlal Nehru's accomplishment, as the leader of India for its first 17 years of Independence, to make an inclusive national consciousness an everyday experience for Indians as the legacy of modern India, renowned novelist and writer Nayantara Sahgal said. While delivering the keynote address of a conclave on "Nehru's legacy: Its relevance to contemporary …

Opinion | From Nehru’s ‘idea of India’ to Modi’s ‘new India’
6 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | From Nehru’s ‘idea of India’ to Modi’s ‘new India’

Live Mint  

On Independence Day, 15 August 2014, Rupa Subramanya and I had written a blog post in which we argued that with the advent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s postcolonial moment had arrived. We had in mind both the literal—first prime minister born after independence, leading a political party created after independence—and, more importantly, the metaphorical—a farewell to former prime …

Book Review 'Left, Right and Centre: The Idea of India'
7 years, 7 months ago

Book Review 'Left, Right and Centre: The Idea of India'

Deccan Chronicle  

Like India: Profound, mundane, exciting. We expect each piece independently would be a fascinating argument, and in unison, the collection would enrich our perspectives, as Salman Rushdie wrote, “India, as enigmatic as God or money”. She enlists recent threats — Twitter trolls, lynching mobs, terrorists, shrinking of space for dissent in universities; and concludes, quoting Rabindranath Tagore, “To worship my …

Our ‘un-Indian’ Constitution
9 years ago

Our ‘un-Indian’ Constitution

Live Mint  

The Indian constitutional project can be described in many ways. It borrowed Directive Principles of State Policy from the Irish Constitution, and was influenced by the American debates over due process—all made to serve distinctly Indian political challenges. While the quality of the reasoning can be disputed in individual cases, there is no question that to enter the world of …

A vision for India: Nehru’s idea of modern nationhood
10 years, 4 months ago

A vision for India: Nehru’s idea of modern nationhood

The Hindu  

THE FOUR KEY DIMENSIONS OF India’s modern nationhood, as conceived and implemented by Jawaharlal Nehru, were democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment. Thus, by insisting on a democratic polity and “nurturing it like a mother nurtures her child”, as Congress president Sonia Gandhi remarked at Nehru’s 125th birth anniversary celebration, Nehru established the democratic ethos, the democratic institutions and the democratic …

Nehru and Idea(s) of India: Separating fact from fiction
10 years, 4 months ago

Nehru and Idea(s) of India: Separating fact from fiction

Firstpost  

As India struggles over the nature of its identity and as contestations over its nature grow shriller, a rather curious debate is taking place. This debate pertains to the nature of Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘legacy’ and its future amid all the fluid and churn that defines India contemporaneity. It was Nehru who, in the world view of these hagiographers, who ‘discovered’ …

Dividing lines: New India will vote for a new idea
10 years, 11 months ago

Dividing lines: New India will vote for a new idea

Deccan Chronicle  

The 2014 election is a landmark of its kind. It is different in many ways and we have to savour every little difference to grasp the new texture of the historical. If AAP is fluid, the Bharatiya Janata Party moves like a juggernaut, desperately scared of failure. The BJP looks like an energetic dinosaur next to the AAP which behaves …

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