2022

by Mahi Pal Singh *
This August in 2022 we are going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our Independence and pay our homage to the freedom fighters, who spent their lives in jails and even laid down their lives so that the people of their country may breathe in an independent country and live a dignified life. This is also an occasion for stock taking whether the rulers of Independent India have fulfilled the dreams of our forefathers and lived upto the expectations of We, the People of (…)

by D Raja *
As the country is celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence, it’s an irony of history that the RSS, which remained loyal to the British, is now trying to appropriate the legacy of our secular and inclusive struggle for independence. Seventy-five years ago, our country reached an important milestone, when people of the country got liberated from the clutches of British colonialism. Our independence was the result of a century-long sustained mass struggle, with many (…)

Some Gandhians are feeling indignant about the special issue of ’Antim Jan’ on Sarvakar. It is a monthly magazine published by a government organization, ’Gandhi Darshan and Smriti’. Some journalists, intellectuals and party spokespersons/leaders too have expressed their unhappiness over the special issue. Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi’s statement also has come against the same. ’Gandhi Darshan and Smriti’ is an organization related to the life and thoughts of Gandhi. Opponents (…)

On 13 Dec 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved an “Objective Resolution” during the Constituent Assembly, which outlined the objectives of the Constitution. These were discussed and later became the constitutional Preamble, assuring to the People, the democratic core values of Justice, Liberty and Equality. Fraternity as a core value, was added by B.R.Ambedkar on 21 February 1948.
B.R.Ambedkar urged that the Constitution should strive towards the creation of unity among citizens by improving (…)

by Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Indians are going to unfurl the tricolour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence on 15th of August 2022. Indian freedom struggle has not only shaped India as a modern constitutional democracy but also shaped the nature of state, society and citizenship. The anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggle were the four pillars of the Indian freedom struggle that laid the foundation of a sovereign nation-state promised to (…)

by Arun Srivastava
Nitish Kumar has been ridiculed and described as an unreliable partner for his turning sides during his nearly two-decade stay in the office of the chief minister, but he at the same time deserves appreciation for shaking the level of confidence of Narendra Modi and snatching the Chanakya crown from Amit Shah by foiling their design to dislodge from the power and committing to unite the fractious opposition to take on the creator of New India.
During the last year, the (…)

Jo baat kehte darte hain sab, too wo baat likh
Itni andheri thhee na kabhi pehle raat, likh —Javed Akhtar
(Write what everyone is scared of saying; write that the night was never so dark as now)
Once again the courts in India have exposed themselves to the charge of aiding the executive’s partisan role in targeting political and other opponents of this government, suppressing dissidence through patently unfair, arbitrary means, misusing various investigative agencies of the Central (…)

by Naushad Ali
Sunil Memorial Trust organized an Online Panel Discussion on “Being Unemployed in Today’s India” on the 9th of July 2022.
The speakers at the panel discussion were Dr Amit Basole, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University. Manindra Thakur, Professor, Center for Political Science, JNU and Mr. Anupam, National President, Yuva Halla Bol.
Initiating the panel discussion, Professor PK Basant first introduced Sunil (…)

by Bhavya *
Abstract:
In the contemporary era, bulldozers have been used to remove political opponents and minority groups of society. It is because of the dominance of majoritarian groups over weaker sections of society. Absolute power of the State is the result of violations of basic fundamental rights. All the acts of the state should be reasonable and must not violate the principles of democracy. The values of liberty, equality, justice, fraternity, etc. should be exercised in a way (…)

It was on August 8 1942, 80 years ago, that Mahatma Gandhi gave his great call to the people of India to ‘do or die’ for independence and thereby served notice to the colonial rulers. Even though all the leading Congress rulers were arrested almost immediately, several hundred thousand people responded almost immediately and the very next day witnessed some of the most courageous and spontaneous clashes of people with police, despite the clear instructions from Churchill and his henchmen to (…)