The Bengali writer Nirad C Chaudhuri recounts his eyewitness experience of a typical meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC). The picture he paints is not pretty.
Part 1: The Consequences of Ignoring Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya’s Warning: A Preface
October 26 1946. Exactly twelve days before he uncoiled his earthly bonds, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bombed Article 370 and 35A into the dustbin of history thereby paving way for the complete integration of Kashmir into the rest of Bharatavarsha. But
The barbaric Jihad against Hindus in the Malabar region can by no stretch of imagination be characterized as the “Moplah Rebellion.” Even the stray incidents of arson, capture of British
On 24 December 1921, the pre-independence Indian National Congress met at Ahmedabad for a discussion on the Congress Subjects Committee and passed five or six resolutions. This was truly a
Let’s look at two representative instances[i] from the post-independence history of India drawn at random. Both concern the same people, both are related to each other and both
In the previous part discussing R.C. Majumdar’s frank and objective critique of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, we had seen how Majumdar showed, using Gandhi’s own words, that Satyagraha
In adversity, he was a unifier, in victory, magnanimous, in defeat, equanimous, and in exit, gracious.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
This is his finest hour.
Mesmerising Orator
A late rainy monsoon
This column is authored by Kashyap Naik, a practising lawyer.
In a recent speech during August 2017 at Bangalore, Amit Shah, the national president of BJP, interestingly cited a few
