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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, never paid allegiance to Hinduism, but also actually valued non-violence.
The image of him as a trigger-happy young man was deliberately publicised by the colonial government, which many of us internalised and continue to romanticise.
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal advancement is a fundamental theme of our cultural ethos, and it stifles original research and thinking in India.
In a world of conformists and cowards, Roy’s courage inspires and kindles hope.
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
In India, we appear to have succumbed to some ultramontane form of Hinduism, though in this setting, the Prime Minister is the figurative Pope.
The success of right wing forces to increase their clout through the Ram Temple campaign may prompt them to go in this direction, which is detrimental to the progress and development of the country.
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