Tag: Gandhi-related articles
The compass we lost
Note: The two links below are recordings of public lectures given by me under the kind auspices of The Raza Foundation (October 4, 2019), titled The Compass We Lost; and ANHAD Collective, titled Love at Work, Mahatma Gandhi’s Last Struggle (January 14, 2017). Dilip Simeon: The Compass We Lost <— link to AV Love at… Read More The compass we lost
V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
First posted September 20, 2012 By A.G. NOORANIIf only Savarkar’s bodyguard and his secretary had testified against him in court, he would have been convicted for Gandhi’s murder On July 12 Swapan Dasgupta made an interesting disclosure in the evening on television. L.K. Advani had told him that according to Morarji Desai, V.D. Savarkar was complicit… Read More V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
RIP Bhiku Daji Bhilare: the man who saved Gandhiji’s life in 1944
Subhash Gatade First posted August 06, 2017 For a section of people – whose number is diminishing fast – it is a moment of nostalgia when idealism was in air and sacrificing oneself for the cause of emancipation of humanity was looked at with respect, whereas for a larger section which is being intoxicated with… Read More RIP Bhiku Daji Bhilare: the man who saved Gandhiji’s life in 1944
Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World http://www.markshep.com/peace/books/Myths.html General InfoReviewsSample Text I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For, wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.” Mahatma Gandhi is one of the least understood figures of all time—even among his admirers.… Read More Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
The Philosophy of Number
Dilip Simeon First posted on March 24, 2015 NB: This paper appeared in a volume entitled Communalism in Post-colonial India Changing Contours; by Mujibur Rehman (ed; 2015). I discuss why our understanding of communal politics is constrained from the outset by the faulty concepts we use, which only serve to re-inforce communal ideologies. DS The Philosophy of Number [1]… Read More The Philosophy of Number
Anil Nauriya: Manufacturing Memory
First posted April 29, 2020 Our history is a battleground. What we remember and what we forget is essential to the control of the national narrative Nearly a month after Gandhi’s assassination, Sardar Patel, the then home minister, wrote, on February 27, 1948, to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and placed the blame squarely on “a fanatical… Read More Anil Nauriya: Manufacturing Memory
Mukulika Banerjee: Remembering Bacha Khan. The beleaguered legacy of Frontier Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan
First posted January 20, 2016 The non-violent soldier of Islam, Bharat Ratna, died 28 years ago, on January 20, 1988. The assault on the university named after him in Pakistan is yet another attack on his legacy. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) is better remembered in India as Frontier Gandhi, and in Pakistan as Bacha… Read More Mukulika Banerjee: Remembering Bacha Khan. The beleaguered legacy of Frontier Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan
UP govt officials ‘takeover’ non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values
Head of the Gandhi Vidya Sansthan said he had moved a petition before Allahabad High Court alleging the government action violated an earlier high court order. Piyush Srivastava Uttar Pradesh government officials and police allegedly barged into a non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, and said they were… Read More UP govt officials ‘takeover’ non-government institution that propagates Gandhian values
Rectifying the past
Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past: George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty four The will cannot will backwards… That time does not run backward, that is his wrath; ‘that which was’ is the name of the stone he cannot move. And so he moves stones out of wrath… Read More Rectifying the past
After the truth-shower 