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Why Gandhi fell out with Arya Samaj
Swami Dayanand Saraswati, whose death anniversary falls this week (October 30, 1883), deserves attention from all Indians. If Mahatma Gandhi is “Father of the...
Folly of equating Vande Mataram with religion
The Partition divided India. Jinnah went away as soon as he made Pakistan. But the poison remained in Free India. The unassailable symbols of...
Guha and the Gandhi he hides
Ramachandra Guha today hogged the Indian Express edit page with his column: “Does Gandhi have a caste?”.
Guha, already a book old on Gandhi--“Gandhi before...
Rahul Gandhi and the ‘colonized mind’
So we read this comic-tragic news the other day that Rahul Gandhi is reading Bhagwad Gita and Upanashids to counter Rashtriya Swayam Sangh (RSS)...
Padmavati: History as per se Times of India
My first instinct on reading this Times of India (29.1.2017) headline was that the likes of Romilla Thapar and Irfan Habib have been pressed...
Why ‘Shaktimaan’ matters and not cows
We all know Shaktimaan the horse. From March 14 to April 20 this year, between its unfortunate injury and death, it remained a front...
Durga Puja : Violent attacks on core Hindu belief
The worship of Shakti, the “Durga Puja”, has inspired principal Hindu resistance across ages. It has inspired Hindu women to military defend their cultural...