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September 28, 2019 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh’s 112th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing an extract from an article on Bhagat Singh. The full article can be read on Janata blog. Shahid Bhagat Singh is widely recognised as perhaps the most famous and respected revolutionary of the freedom movement of…
(This article was published in Mainstream on 9 August, 1997. We are reproducing it here as it is still as relevant today.) As the country is getting ready to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of attainment of freedom, many memories come back to those who were fortunate to be witness to those momentous events. The subcontinent—both…
The anti-colonial struggle saw the emergence of a pan-Indian national consciousness that was superimposed upon a pre-existing “nationality” consciousness based on linguistic regions. The pan-Indian national consciousness, in other words, was superimposed upon a Bengali or Gujarati or Tamil or Odiya consciousness; and the anti-colonial struggle saw the flourishing of both kinds of consciousness. Every…
The government has finally admitted that the Indian economy is on a steep downturn. For some time now, even the business community, which tends to shower all praise and disapprove any criticism of the reformist Modi dispensation, has expressed concern about deteriorating economic conditions and the absence of any decisive action on the part of…
[When Raosaheb Kasbe’s Zot was published in Marathi in 1978, RSS cadres made a public bonfire of it at the Janata Party convention in Pune that year. The book presented an incisive critique of M.S. Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thoughts, the main ideological treatise of the RSS. Kasbe traced the historical roots of cultural nationalism as…
Chandra Bhal Tripathi passed away at his New Delhi home on 20 September 2019. He was 88. Born on 29 October 1930 at Basti in eastern Uttar Pradesh, he was a social anthropologist, a social activist and a former prominent student and socialist youth leader. He belongs to a family of freedom fighters, litterateurs and…
(The following is an abridged version of remarks by TV newsman Bill Moyers, as prepared for delivery at the “Covering Climate Now” conference co-sponsored by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review on April 30.) I have been asked to bring this gathering to a close by summing up how we can do better at covering…
Gandhi’s view on khadi present the key to his views on economics, or to what some scholars have called Gandhian Economics. He made it clear that his economic ideas were in some way the opposite of the views which were widely prevalent then. He wrote in 1934 : “In reorganising your khadi production you should…
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a powerful speech at Riverside Church in New York City. This is the text of that historic speech.) I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with…
The U.S. government is forcing hundreds of thousands of migrant and refugee people and their children into squalid, unsanitary, and unsafe prison camps. Haunting images are emerging of children staring through multiple layers of razor-wired fencing, people clustered under “space” blankets to escape the blistering heat, and desperate people huddled under pieces of tarp in…
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