Mainstream Weekly

A Research Project on Gandhi and M.N. Roy

R M Pal — 2010-07-16T10:07:54Z

I wrote the following outline of a comparative study of M. N Roy and Gandhi in 1992, when I retired from Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. I did not intend sitting idle and wanted to do some research on Gandhi and M.N. Roy. I thought I might be able to keep myself engaged in writing on this subject and a friend of mine, who knows my background, suggested that I should be able to get a grant from the ICSSR for doing research on this topic. That's how I wrote the outline. One day I went (…)

- 2010

Was Partition of India Inevitable?

R M Pal — 2009-08-19T07:04:16Z

This article was sent to us quite sometime back but could not be used earlier for unavoidable reasons. —Editor
On the black Saturday evening my family and I switched on the TV and heard the black and sad news of Pakistan coming under emergency rule, which meant Martial Law. We changed channels but all channels were telecasting the same news. I said, to the great annoyance of my wife, for she does not like my criticism of Gandhi, in Hindi, “Yeh sab Gandhi ki meharbani hai.” What I wanted to (…)

- August 2009

Higher Education : Basic Problems

R M Pal — 2008-05-14T00:41:58Z

REVIEW ARTICLE
Towards a New Paradigm in Higher Education by Ashok Celly (ed.); Papaz Publication, Delhi; pp. 206; price: Rs 400.
Dr Celly has selected writings of well-known intellectuals and academics like Tagore, Professors Daya Krishna, S.C. Dube, P.C. Joshi etc. in this publication. It is a timely book in that not many thoughtful people, even academics, are taking the question of higher education and research in our country seriously. In spite of the Knowledge Commission, which has (…)

- May 10, 2008