Ridiculed for a decade, Rahul Gandhi slows Modi juggernaut
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters for a decade as an entitled dynast, marked a stunning comeback on Tuesday, emerging at the…
King and Gandhi’s India
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr, one of the greatest nonviolent leaders of the 20th century, was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, US.…
An affront to Gandhi’s Ram
IT was a day to celebrate and cheer for the ruling party. It was a day to reflect and worry for India’s future. It was a day for the BJP…
Remembering Gandhi in Modi’s India
Nothing is so prized in politics as a short public memory. As India and the world mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, and world leaders ply us with the…
Can Congress survive sans the Gandhis?
Without a Gandhi at the top, India’s Congress Party is increasingly looking and acting like a headless chicken. Since its debacle in the recent general elections, there has been a…
A return to Gandhifor the Congress
Rahul Gandhi, once derided as ‘pappu’ (simpleton or idiot) by the mega propaganda machinery of the governing BJP, has not just come into his own as the leader of the…
Why Hindutva hates Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi may have been born into the bania caste – whose vocation has remained trade and money-lending in India’s rigid caste pyramid. However, few in a country where…
Imagine if Gandhi had a gun
Black American writer Charles E. Cobb Jr has set off a strange and unexpected train of thought in my mind with his 2014 book: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed:…
Did Gandhi hate music, cinema?
Wonder what Nietzsche — who famously claimed not to believe in a god that could not dance — would have said of Gandhi. The question arose when I went to…
From Gandhi to Modi
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee made a monumental error by not honouring Mahatma Gandhi before he died. After his assassination in 1948, the committee covered up its inaction by stating…
