By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Feb 4, 2024: Today’s socioeconomic, religious and political scenario in the country frightens me. I wonder whether we live in a civilised and a democratic society when we see the ushering-in of Rama Rajya by constructing Ram temple at Ayodhya. The pro-corporate policies of theContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: One of the seven crimes about which Mahatma Gandhiji mentioned was Education without character. During the past one year we have been witnessing increasing cases of crimes committed by school and college students. Such crimes have been highlighted by various English and Vernacular newspapers. SomeContinue Reading
Malawi : A bust of renowned Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe, two years after critics prevented a Gandhi statue from being erected in the southern city of Blantyre. The Indian high commission’s original plans in 2018 met stiff resistance from some localsContinue Reading
London, Aug 13, 2020: A pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses are to go on sale after spending a weekend sticking halfway out of an auction house’s letterbox on a busy industrial estate in Bristol in UK. Staff at East Bristol Auctions found the glasses in a plain envelope on aContinue Reading
London, 3rd August 2020: Mahatma Gandhi will be the first non-white person on British currency. The Royal Mint Advisory Committee, which recommends themes and designs for coins, has started work on a coin featuring the Indian independence leader in the UK. Gandhi was assassinated five months after the end ofContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, July 4, 2020: During the course of agitation ‘Black lives matter’ some protestors defaced the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in US. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of Indian Nation, has the unique distinction of leading the biggest ever mass movement in the world and leading the strongContinue Reading
Washington, June 4, 2020: Miscreants have vandalized a statue of Mahatma Gandhi statue situated in a public park across from the Indian Embassy in Washington. The statue was defaced with graffiti during the ongoing protests over the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American. The statue was spray painted withContinue Reading
By Harsh Mander New Delhi, Dec 29, 2019: The nation’s slide into fear, hate and bigotry did not begin ex nihilo five years ago. It’s the climax of a hundred-year campaign against the kind and pluralistic ethos of the freedom struggle A hundred years have passed since a battle wasContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Nov 15, 2019: A government booklet describing Mahatma Gandhi’s death as an “accident” has triggered a row in Odisha, with political leaders and activists demanding an apology from state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and immediate steps to correct the “blunder.” The two-page booklet “Aama Bapuji: Eka Jhalaka” (Our Bapuji:Continue Reading
(sequel to “Gandhiji’s Quest for Truth) By chhotebhai Kanpur, October 5, 2019: It’s done and dusted, Mahatma Gandhi’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary. So, we may now conveniently forget him and return to our humdrum lives. After all, no less than the PM has pompously declared rural India to be Open DefecationContinue Reading
