Articles with tag: gandhi
Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul
Juan Sandoval May 3, 2008 interacts: 233Nirmala Deshpande a dedicated Gandhian was a true peace activist.
Revival of Passive Resistance in Indian Commercial Cinema
Vaibhav Jain Feb 7, 2008That non-violence is an integral and a much respected part of our culture, seems to have slowly escaped our memory.
Bobby & Jerry : Rise of a Coloured ‘son’ Retold
Anand Patwardhan Oct 31, 2007 interacts: 25Bobby 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.
Communists and the Making of Pakistan
Yasser Latif Hamdani Oct 7, 2007 interacts: 117History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj
Periyar An Iconoclast and a Reformer
Shantanu Dutta Sep 20, 2007 interacts: 15Dr. Ambedkar found his answers (to caste problem) in Buddhism, Periyar felt the answer lay in humanism and he became progressively an atheist and a rationalist.
Independence Thinker
William Dalrymple Aug 18, 2007 interacts: 357Gandhi is one of the most written about individuals in modern history... But recently his status has been somewhat eroded.
Film “Amu” Revisits the 1984 Sikh Massacre in Delhi
Ras Siddiqui Jul 27, 2007 interacts: 7Kaju’s past leads to the year 1984, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
Rahul Gandhi's Election Campaign
mehul kamdar Apr 29, 2007 interacts: 20Like monarchs of yore, this family seeks, perhaps, to install itself as a permanent ruling family in India.
Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?
Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years
Ba, Beti aur Bahu
Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?
Indian Corruption Reaches the World
mehul kamdar Feb 17, 2006 interacts: 23It was in this atmosphere that Natwar Singh apparently found his calling, a move that would make him some money and later destroy his political career though it is widely believed that he has been made a scapegoat
Gandhi in The Handmaid’s Tale
Aisha Sarwari Oct 4, 2005 interacts: 773He is known to the world as a leader of the independence movement of India. He’s known as a frail man who led thousands to fight the British using the original method of non-violence. He’s a great story, but out of all his unpalatable myths I
The Naked Fakir
Hiren K Bose Oct 3, 2005 interacts: 230’The naked fakir,’ Churchill called him. ’Greatest man ever who walked on the earth ...’ said Einstein.
Caste and the City
Shivam Vij Dec 6, 2004 interacts: 171Caste discrimination operates via exclusivism. We won’t live with you, we won’t eat with you, and we won’t socialize with you. So it should not be surprising that such marginalisation extends to the job market.
Deconstructing Durga
Farzana Versey Oct 31, 2004 interacts: 86She took away the privy purses, but kept the princes; spoke of social democracy but gave a fillip to the license permit raj. She thrived on strife. Operation Bluestar was based on lies. Bhindranwale was the Osama to Indira’s Bush. She had propped hi
A Shameless Polemic Against the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty
Ashish Sharma Mar 3, 2004 interacts: 98One of the most pathetic sights in India today is to watch various Congress party officials beating their breasts over secularism and the rise of Hindu nationalism.
Kashmir: Time for a Radical Approach?
Temporal Mar 31, 2003 interacts: 448The Kashmiris are not even a foot note and Ram Babu and Allah Rakha the perennial losers.
Muslims in India: Communalism vs. Backwardness-Minority Syndrome
Zafar Anjum Feb 27, 2003 interacts: 169Today, it is imperative that the Muslim community fights the ogre of communalism
What Would Baynard Rustin Say?
Rehan Ansari Feb 14, 2003 interacts: 13In our casual GAP knockoffs and Old Navy clothes, we convey the idea that we are rebelling against suburban middle class proprieties
Towards Greater Tolerance
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jan 30, 2003 interacts: 281Anti-Pakistanism and neo-Indian Nationalism
The Unmaking Of Gujrat
Farzana Versey Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 263The key players in these elections and therefore Indian polity seem like characters in a drama of the absurd.
Gandhi, Godse and Geeta
Dost Mittar Nov 10, 2002 interacts: 156Who was following the message of Geeta in the true sense? Gandhi, Godse or both?
The Hindu Right
Ra Ravishankar Aug 6, 2002 interacts: 184Advani’s yathra in an air-conditioned Toyota left a trail of blood in its wake
Cry, the Beloved Country
Harsh Mander Apr 4, 2002 interacts: 258There is much that the murdering mobs in Gujarat have robbed from me
Pakistanis in Afghanistan, Nothing New
Malik S Khar Feb 1, 2002 interacts: 46The more the government cuts back on the opportunities available to the Mullah to interact with the citizen, the more the government is cutting back on the Mullahs sources of revenue
Borders are Made of These
Farzana Versey Dec 31, 2001 interacts: 223if I join this ideological war, the blood will only congeal in my heart
A Journey Into Afghanistan
Aakar Patel Nov 1, 2001 interacts: 175Aside to President Bush: Afghans have been conquered and made to submit by only two men
Caught In Between
Aisha Sarwari Sep 15, 2001 interacts: 603Pakistan is on the defensive almost constantly
Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry, SJ
AH Amin Jul 8, 2001 interacts: 323An interview with a war hero ...
An Eulogy For The Hawks
Keerthik Sasidharan Jun 29, 2001 interacts: 203Your administrations’ talks with President Musharraf
Talking to Vajpayee
Mushahid Hussain Jun 18, 2001 interacts: 371Vajpayee has demonstrated that he can be different
Open Letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee
Anand Patwardhan Mar 4, 2001 interacts: 514I do not wish to neutralize the horror I feel at the destruction of Buddhist monuments with the thought that my national leaders did the same thing a decade ago
Hands Across The Border
Sharmila Bakshi Feb 17, 2001 interacts: 336we all must plant our saplings of peace today
The Autonomy is for India
Anil Kapuria Oct 12, 2000 interacts: 48greater autonomy for states is the only way
Twosome Troubles of Troublesome Two
Udayakumar Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 122The adolescent behavior of both the Indian and Pakistani elites and their awry management of bilateral relations has become a matter of international notoriety
Masala Democracy
Neil Aggarwal Oct 14, 1999 interacts: 21Only in South Asia would a masala mix of militancy, neglect of the masses, and elite politics pass for democracy
Lahore Diaries III
Rehan Ansari Sep 10, 1999 interacts: 79So why was this county divided?
That was a mistake. Sorry. It won’t happen again.
Save India
Veer Kumar Jul 27, 1999 interacts: 52A martial law administration has to take over the country
Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Next PM?
George F Maximillian Jul 17, 1999 interacts: 60In terms of being a hypocrite - who in Pakistan isn’t?
India’s Failure of Imagination
Rohan Oberoi Jul 2, 1999 interacts: 62No one in India, it seems, has a clue what people across the border in Pakistan are thinking
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
An Interview with Deepa Mehta
Rehan Ansari Jan 26, 1999 interacts: 8Of partition, hybrid filmmaking and the lack of inhibitions
An Interview with Naseeruddin Shah
Rehan Ansari Jan 12, 1999 interacts: 663 pages of Manto tells you what you want to know [about Partition]
A Line Runs Through It
Feroz R Khan Jan 1, 1999 interacts: 68Siachen-Kargil: India, Pakistan, Kashmir and forgotton lessons of history
Monks on a Pilgrimage
Yousuf Saeed Nov 2, 1998 interacts: 2a peace march to Pakistan across the India-Pakistan border
Talking of Talks
Udayakumar Oct 22, 1998 interacts: 9...the Prime Ministers have had a telephone talk
India
Amitava Kumar Sep 18, 1998 interacts: 11India I still haven’t told you what you did to Manto when he did not
leave for Pakistan in ’47.
Communists and Congress Should Give Birth to ’Red Indians’
Udayakumar Sep 9, 1998 interacts: 4The Communist parties and the Congress (I) are toying with the idea of coming closer to form an alternative political dispensation
Nuclear Bomb for Sale
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan Jul 6, 1998 interacts: 11the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,
Onwards to the Nuclear Abyss
Feroz R Khan Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 6India, Pakistan and the March of Folly
Crying Buddha
Ras Siddiqui May 23, 1998 interacts: 2Three tears fell to wet the Indian desert on
This grim and horrifying day in May as ...
Patriot Games
Shiv Visvanathan May 18, 1998 interacts: 13Pass out the barfis. It could be a hockey match. A Tendulkar century. A riot or a nuclear blast.
