Mohandas Gandhi’s Celibacy Experiments
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who later received accolades like Mahatma, Bapu and Father of the Nation, is usually associated with morality, ethics, self-abnegation, piety and self-control. Gandhi openly spoke about More...
Gandhi As He Really Was: The Empire Loyalist
2019 is the year the world celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A question does need to be asked: do the common people of the world really know this “man of peace”? First, let More...
Partition: Why Britain created Pakistan
In May 1945 as people across the planet celebrated the end of World War II in Europe, one baleful figure was planning the annihilation of the world’s oldest continuing civilisation. His heart full of hatred for More...
High Jinks That May Cause A Cabal To Collapse
History is replete with examples like the one that India saw on TV on the evening of Friday, the 20th July, when Rahul Gandhi, in a bizarre (almost macabre) display of immaturity tried to pull a fast one on Prime More...
Good Lenin or bad Lenin, India needs less Lenin
In 1908 the great Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for his demand for immediate self rule. He was sentenced to six years in a Burma jail by a British kangaroo court. Days after Tilak’s trial, More...
Stealing Shivaji: Why liberals hate the Hindu emperor but also want to make him secular
In 1925 an Indian revolutionary wrote a letter to Mohandas Gandhi, accusing the Congress leader of stifling India’s freedom movement due to his non-violent approach. The gist of this most interesting letter is More...
A Daoist Interpretation of Gandhian Thought and Dharma
Mohandas Gandhi is a living spirit in the forest of Indian politics, rustling with every leaf and bustling with every beast, though nobody sees that spirit with their own eyes. Great men shape history in their own More...
Who is Culpable in the 1947 genocide?
Official estimates downplay the toll of civilians who were killed or raped during the orgy of riots which accompanied the partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1947. Probably, anywhere between one and two More...
Happy Birthday Mr Gandhi!
Dear Mr Gandhi, Since childhood, we are taught to worship you as the best thing to happen to this country, the perfect human. There is no escaping you in India. Your face smiles at us on banknotes, your name is More...
Mehbooba Is Already Enjoying A Rare ‘Azadi’- Il
[contextly_sidebar id=”5I5kPie3y2VXZ3Y4E8ueWsETwhX4dUtx”] Constitutional Lollipops to J&K Cripple Idea of India The Indian Constitution’s Article 370, Clauses 1 (c) and (d) say that —- “(c) More...