Ugly Side of God Men
Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim was a Bhindran-wale in the making. He, too, saw to it that nobody dared him. But he turned out to be a paper tiger. When CBI court judge Jagdeep Singh pronounced his verdict, the...
View ArticleDemocracy in Digital Age: Revisiting the Gandhian Idea of Civic Engagement
by Pradeep NairInformation is a core community need in any democracy whether it is digital or conventional. People having access to information always have an edge over others who were denied the...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi — The Great Communicator
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following is the text of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture 1995 delivered by Nikhil Chakravartty in New Delhi on January 30, 1995. It first appeared in Mainstream (October 3,...
View ArticleTo Mahatmaji
. . . Came flood, came death, came the storm of warGreat Famine left its signature on every road,Every moment I was afraid the whole history was under threatYet I kept my spirit up, although besieged...
View ArticleA Gandhian Approach to Current Problems
by Sadiq AliOn the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's one hundred and fortyeighth birth anniversary on October 2, we are reproducing the following text of Sadiq Ali's Nineteenth Annual Gandhi Peace...
View ArticleGandhiji at the Dawn of Freedom
by Kshitish Chandra Das GuptaThe Fifteenth of August, 1947, was drawing near. India was going to shake off two centuries of British domination and join the comity of nations as a sovereign independent...
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Gandhi for Today
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's one hundred and fortyeighth birth anniversary on October 2, 2017, we are reproducing the following excerpts from his writings and pronouncements. This is followed by...
View ArticleTaking Educational Institutions Backwards
On September 11, 1893 Swami Vivekananda delivered his famous speech in the Parliament of World's Religions in Chicago. The Bharatiya Janata Party Government decided to celebrate the event and Prime...
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Bure Din is Staring Us in the Face
EDITORIALThe worsening political and economic situation within the country is having its inevitable impact on the ruling dispensation at the Centre.The BJP's official position of forcing the Rohingyas...
View ArticleMarx and his Das Kapital
by Martand JhaThe month of September marked the 150th anniversary of Das Kapital. On September 14, 1867, Karl Marx wrote this seminal text where he explained the theory of the capitalist system, which...
View ArticleLiving
They say life is glorious, abundant — an amazing gift of God.But do they know how damning it isto keep one's end up in a worldthat grinds out a livingof going to work in the morning,hoping to return...
View ArticleRole of Spiritual Capital in Ensuring Cleanliness in India
by Mahi PalSettingOn the occasion of the third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the Government of India has launched a ‘Swachhta Hi Seva' nationwide campaign on September 15, 2017 to...
View ArticleCatalans' Rationale for Referendum
by Sankar Ray“There was something of the evil atmosphere of war. The town had a gaunt untidy look, roads and buildings were in poor repair, the streets at night were dimly lit for fear of air-raids,...
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Sustainable Agricultural Development—Inorganic (GMO Crops) and Organic...
by A.V.V.S.K. Rao and M. Ramulu“Farming looks easy when your plough is a pencil”—Dwight, D. Eisenhower, (34th President of the Usa) (1890-1969)IntroductionToday, there is awareness that the “Green...
View ArticleThe GST Syndrome
by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De1. IntroductionThe Goods and Services Tax (GST) is nothing new. It has been in the air since the 2000s or even earlier. The singularity of the present situation is the...
View ArticleAnthony J. Parel's Contribution towards Understanding Mahatma Gandhi
by A. Raghu KumarMahatma Gandhi introduced non-violence as a method of political struggle in India's anti-colonial struggle. This method was adopted as a considered choice in many later struggles in...
View ArticleThe BJP should Draw a Lesson or Two from Nehru's Far-Sighted Assessment of China
by Vappala BalachandranExternal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha on August 2, 2017 that “dialogue is the only way out of the Doklam standoff” with China. She ruled out war as an...
View ArticleBJP's image dims with economic disruption; Rahul's image glows with US tour....
impressionsThe Congress party published full-page advertisements in New York to announce a Rahul Gandhi meeting there. It made history by including, alongside the pictures of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira,...
View ArticleInsanity Enthroned
From N.C.'s WritingsAfter forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil...
View ArticleWhy Indians may be looking for a Rahul Gandhi
For a momentous three years or more, the Republic has been in a swoon of sophistry, a bubble of bombast. Not without effect, since Indians across classes and castes actually came to be taken in by a...
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