Essential Message of Guru Nanak
Our deeply troubled world today badly needs the essential message of peace, simplicity, equality and inter-faith harmony which Guru Nanak spread with so much skill and courage.
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‘The Ascent of Literature Is the Ascent of a Nation’
An essay to mark the the 140th year of his birth: Some people find joy in jewels, some in a happy family, some in big mansions and some in luxury; the joy of reading good literature is greater than these joys and purer than them.
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Charting the Ethical Landscape: Tagore’s Vision of Nation in ‘Where the Mind Is Without Fear’
Tagore reveals the possibility of a nation that essentially emerges from the thoughts and actions of individuals who respond to the truth within their inner being.
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T.M. Krishna: On Rediscovering Asoka Through His Edicts
A musical rendition of Asokan edicts rekindles interest in the ethical values ingrained in them and the Mauryan emperor’s vision of a humane society. Also: an interview with T.M. Krishna.
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The World Turned Upside Down: Rodney’s 1972 Masterpiece
Walter Rodney’s masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa examined four hundred years of European intervention and occupation in Africa. An examination of the context and approach Rodney took in his 1972 book.
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Túpac Amaru’s Rebellion Lives On
In November 1780, Túpac Amaru led an indigenous uprising against Spanish control of Peru. Centuries on, he and his wife and co-organiser Micaela Bastidas are still potent symbols of liberation in the Andes.
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Batukeshwar Dutt: A Working Class Revolutionary’s Life
Remembering Batukeshwar Dutt’s revolutionary career, most of which was either spent in jail or hospitals, on his birth anniversary.
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Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Acting Legend, Principled Lodestar, Utterly Decent Human Being
He died on November 15 from Covid-19 complications in Kolkata. He was 85. A tribute.
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On His Birth Anniversary, Remembering What Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Said About Sedition
“Is sedition a name for freedom struggle which is not successful? If that be so, I would fully agree with it.”
