Gandhi
September 24, 2011
Gandhi-II
I just walked out of my Samadhi at Rajghat; as the actor Arnold Swaz … keeps doing in his action films. I am your Gandhi here amid you in 2011.
December 21, 2010
Sharmaji, Richard Burton and Gandhi
The community hall was teeming with English, Black, Hispanic Indian, Pakistanis and varied specimens of the greatly mixed neighborhood. The Indian entourage looked formidable in its strength
July 27, 2010
Wielding a Lathi in London #2
“Only if these Thakkars were not so foolishly arrogant, India would have been one…and so many lives would have not been lost in partition, stupid wars and riots....right?”
I kept my bewildered silence, digesting the latest lesson of history.
April 01, 2010
The Muzaffarpur Express
As the Muzaffarpur Express pulled out of the station, our guest took out his pocket watch, checked the time and nodded in approval. He wore his typical, tooth-challenged grin.
October 14, 2009
The Reverse Reward of 2009
Why not Mayawati be conferred upon with Bharat Ratna? Of course Barack Obama is in altogether different league. But logic remains the same.
October 01, 2008
Living Gandhi and King Today: Unbroken Historic Continuity
In the current hopeless global situation, Gandhian way has a promise for a better world. It promotes consciousness of peace and harmony, the foundation to build a peaceful society
May 03, 2008
Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul
Nirmala Deshpande a dedicated Gandhian was a true peace activist.
February 07, 2008
Revival of Passive Resistance in Indian Commercial Cinema
That non-violence is an integral and a much respected part of our culture, seems to have slowly escaped our memory.
October 31, 2007
Bobby & Jerry : Rise of a Coloured ‘son’ Retold
Bobby has proved that he is more Christian than the Christians, more conservative than the conservatives, and as or more embedded in the Bush-Cheney establishment than the others.
October 07, 2007
Communists and the Making of Pakistan
History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj