Bhagat Singh Was a Thinking Individual, Not Just a Raw Nationalist
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.
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New Wings for Socialism
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.
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The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu
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.
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Arundhati Roy: Rebel With a Cause
In a world of conformists and cowards, Roy’s courage inspires and kindles hope.
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On Dr. Ambedkar’s Conversion
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
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Bhopal: A Toxic Tragedy Continues
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
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Reading about Mussolini’s Italy in Modi’s India
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
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A Hindu Papacy?
In India, we appear to have succumbed to some ultramontane form of Hinduism, though in this setting, the Prime Minister is the figurative Pope.
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Kashi-Mathura: Will Temple Politics be Revived?
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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Tablighi Jamaat: Vindicated, Finally
Bombay High Court quashes the FIRs against 29 foreigners and six Indian members of the Tablighi Jamaat and chastises the police for “non-application of mind”, hopefully drawing the curtain on the sustained vilification of the largest Muslim organisation in the country.
