Gandhi and Nehru

The two greatest stalwarts of Indian political history has come under some cynicism due to certain key decisions that they undertook that have altered the path of the nation today...

Putting all that aside, they are two luminaries that India should be proud of and the author Amulya Ganguli laments their contribution to Indian politics.

"It cannot be said more than any other person, Gandhi saved us from an apocalyptic fate"

"A sterling role was played by Nehru in cementing the foundations of secularism by constantly reminding his countrymen of the country’s pluralism, and ensuring that democracy would strike firm roots."

Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, men who saved India

A Trimmed Idea Of India

Liberals must stop accommodating fringe elements and take a stand on fundamentals

A Trimmed Idea Of India

-The Times of India, January 27, 2012

When JLF opens itself to public, it invites the Indian liberals - not the "manicured handful of intellectuals discussing the Russian or Tamil Stalin at clubs and TV studios" - but "thousands of people from diverse classes and languages, spread over distant cities and towns - often obtaining books from fading libraries and railway carts, debating poets in the low-voltage light of old homes, opposing the unjust hierarchies of Indian life," says Srijana Mitra Das.

"As more Indians show intolerance to anyone who threatens violence, we will have more festivals where liberal and illiberal will use only their words to make points or refute them."

It is these Indians, and the growing numbers, that will challenge book bans, "and show the finger to anyone who threatens violence" in the future.  

The ‘Tiruchengodu CR'

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : The ‘Tiruchengodu CR':

‘My innermost being wants your approbation,' Gandhi wrote to him to the Ashram address in Salem. Thirty-nine years after his death, the shining veracity and severe austerity of the man seem as incredible as his ethical intelligence and his self-denying dedication.