The Time Has Come to Bring Ambedkar and Gandhi Together
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.
Ramachandra Guha: At 75, India Is Free – But its Citizens are Still Fighting for Many Rights
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India.
Hindutva has Strong Links with Fascism – But Today’s Leaders Want to Forget Them
Italian historian Marzia Casolari rigorously explored how some Indians were influenced by the destructive European ideology.
India’s Fate Hangs on Whether We Pick Exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s Pluralism
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.
Five Ways in Which Narendra Modi Is Weakening Indian Federalism
Abolishing statehood for Jammu and Kashmir is the most savage attack on the federal principle ever undertaken by a prime minister.
How Modi’s BJP Ensures that the Two-Nation Theory Flourishes in India
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.
In the Repeal of the Farm Laws, the Victory of Satyagraha Over Arrogance
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.
What Today’s Farm Protests Share with Vallabhbhai Patel’s Bardoli Satyagraha
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.
A Tribute to the Greatest Gandhian
August 15 is the death anniversary of Mahadev Desai, Gandhi’s assistant, whose enormous contribution to the freedom struggle has largely remained unhonoured.
How Modi Is Trying to Use Gandhi’s Name to Whitewash His Dark Record
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.