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.
In 1932, Mohandas Gandhi stayed for several weeks in the home of Sarat Chandra Bose in Calcutta as his esteemed guest. This essay contains some revealing details drawn from an eyewitness account of the proceedings.
The history of independent India is also the depressing history of decadal agitations that kept India unstable and continuously on the boil. The national costs have been enormous.
This is the story of K.V.S. Manian, a stenographer at the Director General of Civil Aviation who was dismissed in 1949 for his alleged links with the RSS.
