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For all the lip service leaders of the RSS and BJP pay to the Constitution, in truth they are deeply averse to its core tenets such as pluralism, caste and gender equality, freedom of speech, and federalism, writes Mahadeva.
In April 1941, communal riots broke out in Ahmedabad. Gandhiji’s secretary, Mahadev Desai, wrote a long report on the riots, which remains unpublished. Guha discusses this report, as it is not only very moving, but also speaks directly to the communal situation in India today.
The struggle for inter-faith harmony remains vital and urgent. To overcome the malign forces of Hindutva, we need Ambedkar and Gandhi on the same side.
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India.
Italian historian Marzia Casolari rigorously explored how some Indians were influenced by the destructive European ideology.
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.
Abolishing statehood for Jammu and Kashmir is the most savage attack on the federal principle ever undertaken by a prime minister.
The creation of Bangladesh in December 1971 was supposed to put an end to the two-nation theory. However, in one of history’s cruel ironies, 50 years later, a version of that theory is alive and flourishing in India, the very nation which had rejected the theory in the first place.
The passing of the farm laws was a manifestation of the Modi government’s contempt for the federal structure of the Republic and for Parliament itself.
Of Patel’s numerous contributions to India’s freedom struggle, it is Patel as a Sardar (leader) of the kisans which seems most relevant to us today when, for more than a year now, peasants in northern India have sustained a satyagraha against the Narendra Modi government.
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