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Critique

Gandhi: The 'Mahatma’ and The Pedestal Leaders Occupy

It was the confidence that Gandhi brought that made it acceptable for people to go to jail, take the attacks of the government head-on and have faith in the idea of self-rule.

India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
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Book Review: Rethinking Coloniality From A Civilisational Perspective

Few have taken the effort to explore the politico-theological basis of this malaise called colonialism.

Knowledge
Analysis
Critique
Wide Angle by Tejas Nageshwaran
Politics & Policy

Wide Angle: Ayodhya May Not Be The Only Temple Defining The Future Of The BJP

PM Narendra Modi at the ground breaking ceremony for India's Ram Temple

How the Ram temple at Ayodhya became so significant to the Hindutva ideology is an interesting premise to explore, with far reaching implications for the present and the future of the ideology, the identity and the party.

Politics & Policy

Wide Angle: The Coalition Conundrum

Mamata Banerjee

Aspirations of a grand alliance against the BJP juggernaut are not new. Be it the 2018 photo-op of opposition leaders holding hands at Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in, or Mamta Banerjee’s United India rally at Kolkata in 2019, India’s opposition has routinely promised a grand gathbandhan, but never really delivered.

Politics & Policy

Wide Angle: In Bengal, No One Has It Easy

Mamata Banerjee

In a dramatic development in the Rajya Sabha, just before the House was adjourned till March 8, Dinesh Trivedi, founding member of the Trinamool Congress, requested to be allowed to speak out of turn. He asserted that his voice was being stifled in the party, rendering him helpless against the violence and anarchy being unleashed in Bengal.

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Books & Essays
Artwork depicting Lord Ram fighting Raavan

The Slander Of Ikshvaku

To be sure, Amish is not the first writer to take creative liberties when it comes to narrating the story of Ram. But it must be noted that when Kalidasa, Goswami Tulsidas, Nirala and many others take liberties, they do so with elements of the story that do not have a bearing either on the coherence of the narrative or the centrality of the virtues on which the narrative is built.

Education & Infrastructure
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Are We Building A Nation Of Losers?

The plight of young India is such, that if a stranger asked us to name the battles we won, we’d be at a loss for words. Surely the history classrooms we sat in as children have a thing or two to do with this unfortunate situation. An under-developed sense of civilisational identity, which is a direct result of the above function, continues to confuse and distort our perceptions.

History & People

Kashmir Has Been Festering For Centuries, Not Decades

A reading of Kashmir's history tells a story that is different from popular narrative

Politics & Policy

The Need For Preventive Healthcare Is Now, Not Later

'Prevention better than cure' is not merely a scientific fact, but also a principle dictated by common sense to the common man.

History & People

PV Narasimha Rao And The Truth Of 1991

It was amidst this chaos that PV Narasimha Rao was asked to sit on the Prime Minister’s chair and lead India back from the brink of disaster