Shahid Bhagat Singh
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Shahid Bhagat Singh

September 28, 2019 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh’s 112th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing an extract from an article on Bhagat Singh. The full article can be read on Janata blog. Shahid Bhagat Singh is widely recognised as perhaps the most famous and respected revolutionary of the freedom movement of…

Gandhi’s Lonely Furrow

Gandhi’s Lonely Furrow

(This article was published in Mainstream on 9 August, 1997. We are reproducing it here as it is still as relevant today.) As the country is getting ready to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of attainment of freedom, many memories come back to those who were fortunate to be witness to those momentous events. The subcontinent—both…

How Corporate–Hindutva Axis is Assaulting India’s Federalism

How Corporate–Hindutva Axis is Assaulting India’s Federalism

The anti-colonial struggle saw the emergence of a pan-Indian national consciousness that was superimposed upon a pre-existing “nationality” consciousness based on linguistic regions. The pan-Indian national consciousness, in other words, was superimposed upon a Bengali or Gujarati or Tamil or Odiya consciousness; and the anti-colonial struggle saw the flourishing of both kinds of consciousness. Every…

‘The Criticism of Religion is the Premise of All Criticism’
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‘The Criticism of Religion is the Premise of All Criticism’

[When Raosaheb Kasbe’s Zot was published in Marathi in 1978, RSS cadres made a public bonfire of it at the Janata Party convention in Pune that year. The book presented an incisive critique of M.S. Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thoughts, the main ideological treatise of the RSS. Kasbe traced the historical roots of cultural nationalism as…

Veteran Socialist Chandra Bhal Tripathi is No More

Veteran Socialist Chandra Bhal Tripathi is No More

Chandra Bhal Tripathi passed away at his New Delhi home on 20 September 2019. He was 88. Born on 29 October 1930 at Basti in eastern Uttar Pradesh, he was a social anthropologist, a social activist and a former prominent student and socialist youth leader. He belongs to a family of freedom fighters, litterateurs and…