Satyagraha

Essays

When Lala Lajpat Rai Bombed Mohandas Gandhi’s Politics of Ahimsa

When Lala Lajpat Rai Bombed Mohandas Gandhi’s Politics of Ahimsa

Excerpts from a 1916 essay written by Lala Lajpat Rai blasting Mohandas Gandhi's new doctrine of non-violent resistance against evil.

No Decade of Peace: The Agitational History that Keeps India Unstable

No Decade of Peace: The Agitational History that Keeps India Unstable

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.

India’s Independence was Secondary to Mohandas Gandhi: R.C. Majumdar Unmasks Gandhi

India’s Independence was Secondary to Mohandas Gandhi: R.C. Majumdar Unmasks Gandhi

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 had no fair role in India’s struggle for freedom. In the present episode, we present a continuation of the