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Mahatma Gandhi
Spare us your history lessons, Dalai Lama
It’s such a humbug from the 14th Dalai Lama to suggest that the 1947 Partition could’ve been avoided had Pt Jawaharlal Nehru accepted Mahatama Gandhi’s offer...
Rahul needs to know of Mahatma Gandhi & Capitalists
For all his piety, love and reliance on non-violence and ahimsa, it’s one of history’s indisputable facts that Mahatma Gandhi relied heavily on Indian...
Golwalkar and those two paragraphs
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar needs you on his 45th death anniversary on Tuesday (June 5, 1973). Chances are he would be reviled by Leftists Sitaram Yechury, and...
Irony died a million deaths in Tharoor’s column
Shashi Tharoor’s edit piece in Indian Express on Saturday reminded me of my probation days in journalism with the Times of India in the 80s. My...
Remembering Bipin Chandra Pal: Who called Gandhi ‘Papal Autocrat’
The popular history has Indian National Congress-Mahatma Gandhi-Ahimsa-Independence as a sequential thread embedded in the mind of free Indians. The disruptive truth of 1905-1920...
Why Muslims owe a lot to Sardar Patel
This is the centenary of the year when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel first met Mahatma Gandhi and India got its unifier as we know the...
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...
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...
Why Mamata won’t pay respect to martyrs
A piece in Swarajya magazine highlights the insensitive official reaction in Bengal politicians when two of their martyred soldiers in Uri attack in Kashmir were brought to...
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