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  Disturbing Thoughts on I-Day, 2017

  20 August, by SC
  Editorial
  Today is August 15, 2017. This day marks the seventieth anniversary of our attainment of independence after around 200 years of British colonial thraldom. It is indeed a historic occasion which is being observed and celebrated as such.  (...)

• On Independence Day

  20 August, by Eduardo Faleiro
  On August 15, we celebrate the Independence Day. On that day, in 1947, Prime Minister Nehru proclaimed a tryst with destiny, “a moment which comes but rarely in History when we step from the old into the new, when an age ends and the soul of a  (...)

• A Page from History: Day One in Calcutta

  20 August, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  The following report by Nikhil Chakravartty, the Calcutta correspondent of People’s Age (published from Bombay), appeared in the weekly’s August 24, 1947 issue (it was wired from Calcutta on August 17, 1947) under the  (...)

• Communal Challenge to Free India: Some Reminiscences and Reflections

  20 August, by D.R. Goyal
  Desh Raj Goyal, 84, passed away in New Delhi after a brief illness in the afternoon of February 3, 2013. A veteran journalist and academic, he was the editor of Secular Democracy. From 1963 to 1967 he edited Mainstream.
  Goyal-sahb was a crusader  (...)

• Seventy Years of Joy and Pain

  20 August, by Kuldip Nayar
  Independence celebrations bring to my mind the days I spent in my hometown Sialkot City. After earning the law degree, I was settling to be a lawyer; but partition upset my whole plans. It made me leave the place where I was born and brought up.  (...)

• EPW Controversy and Mainstream

  20 August
  COMMUNICATION
  This is with reference to the EPW controversy, narrated by Sankar Ray in Mainstream (August 5, 2017) [‘Communication: More on EPW’ (page 33)]. The author’s value-judgement is much evident in his narrative. One has definitely the  (...)

• Issue versus Faces: Question of Ownership of Campaigns

  20 August
  by Bihu Chamadia
  Starting with Akhlaq, we witnessed umpteen number of incidents of mob lynching across the length and breadth of the country. Recently, A 16-year-old Junaid was killed by the same faceless mob. Two major campaigns against these  (...)

• The Paika Revolt of Khurda, 1817

  20 August
  by Pritish Acharya
  The Paika Revolt was an armed revolt of the traditional Paika militia in the state of Khurda in Odisha in the year 1817. It began in the month of March and sporadically and inter-mittently continued for nearly a year. The  (...)

• Christian Contribution to the Freedom Struggle

  20 August, by Ambrose Pinto
  As we celebrate 70 years of India’s indepen-dence the Christian community has reasons to legitimately feel proud of its contribution to the nation. Both prior and after independence 2.3 per cent of India’s population of Christians have in a  (...)

• Freedom Fighters lament India moving away from the Ideals of Equality, Justice and Dignity for All

  20 August
  by Bharat Dogra, Jagmohan Singh
  The freedom movement of India is a vast saga of great sacrifices, very inspiring courage and an overwhelming commitment to securing liberty from the bondage of colonial rule, a commitment which enabled a very  (...)

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