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Mahatma Gandhi Archive
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Mahatma Gandhi’s True Legacy
Posted on October 4, 2012 | 89 CommentsExactly one refrain emanating from the 1970s generation encapsulates the significance of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday: a complaint that October 2nd is a Dry Day. That’s what Gandhi has been reduced to after 65 years: a symbol of Prohibition that middle class India must vocally protest... -
Guest Post: Sex, porn, and the Indian Politician
Posted on March 22, 2012 | 44 CommentsThis post is authored by my Twitter friend valhalla_ in response to the media-created “porngate” in the Gujarat assembly. "An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex." ~ Aldous Huxley Everybody is not a Narendra Modi who treads the... -
What Krishna Would Do
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 97 CommentsThe consistently brilliant Atanu Dey asks What would Gandhi do and at the end of his answer, says: “Why does it matter what would Gandhi do? What matters is what we should do,” I said. “Actually that’s why I ask what would Gandhi do,” CJ... -
In the Wake of Yet Another Terror Attack
Posted on July 14, 2011 | 238 CommentsPakistan or some of its localized bigots have played Diwali on the soil of Mumbai once more. A possible clue as to how we got to this state of affairs may lie in the following words: Gandhiji’s letter to Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, written early in...