The Meteor and the Mahatma
The temptation to pit Gandhi and Bhagat Singh against each other is little more than a dilettantish pastime. The truth is that they had a lot in common: fearlessness, calm and an enormous spirit of self-sacrifice.
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Is Gandhi Passé?
There was nothing conventional about Gandhi, and the fundamental questions he raised will not be wished away by conventional wisdom. An excerpt from ‘Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century’, by Niranjan Ramakrishnan.
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Amir Khusrau, the Great Survivor Whose Versatile Imagination Remains Fresh Even Today
A tribute to Amir Khusrau 1253-1325), whose annual urs, or death anniversary commemoration, begins May 19, 2022: Khusrau (was a Renaissance Man long in advance of the Renaissance.
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For Gandhi, Freedom of the Individual Was the First and Last Goal
Gandhi believed that real swaraj would come “not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when abused”.
