The Ends of Justice: a Case of Bilkis Bano
A lone woman’s painful struggle for justice, and the recent remission granted to 11 convicts who had assaulted her during the 2002 Gujarat riots, sits, disturbingly, at the centre of this poem.
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Gandhi’s Life and Struggle: Impact of Jesus Christ
Gandhi succeeded in uniting all people of all religions. This was because he saw religion as morality, as values. He learnt from all religions. One of his core beliefs was from Jesus Christ: the doctrine of love; love not only for your neighbour but also for your enemy.
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As We ‘Beautify’ Our Country, Our Children Inherit the Results of Our Sham Green Clearances
While we may not be around to watch our children enjoy or squander what we saved, nature’s wrath will prove to be more or less instant.
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Baji Rout, the Light of India’s Liberty
On the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country.
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The Search for New Time
Asked by an imaginary interlocutor (in Hind Swaraj) for historical evidence on what he called soul-force or truth-force, Gandhi replies that the continued existence of human life despite incessant wars was proof enough.
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Census of India: Gone With the Wind
The 2021 Census has been indefinitely postponed with doubts about whether it will even continue in its present form. The governments of both colonial and independent India have drawn on the census for their own purposes, but it always was a rich source of quality data.
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‘Freedom, Even at a Bargain, Is Priceless’: Writers Reflect on Where India Is Today
Several writers write about their perspectives on the last 75 years and their hopes for the future.
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Vimal Bhai – Two Obituaries
Vimal Bhai breathed his last on 15 August at AIIMS, Delhi. He will be remembered for a long time for his contributions to many ecological and social movements, especially the movements against several ill-planned hydro-electricity projects in Uttarakhand.
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The Indian Economy Since Independence
Neo-liberalism ends up getting enmeshed in stagnation and mass unemployment from which there is no exit. Because of this dead-end, it imposes a neo-fascist political regime upon the country. Overthrowing it is a difficult task; it can be accomplished only by the widest mobilisation of the working people.
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Science as Solution
For Nehru, science was not limited to industry and development, it was for him a romance. While he wanted to salvage whatever was constructive in India’s tradition and culture, he battled against the hegemony of religious dogma and orthodoxy which were obstructing the country’s development.
