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January 26, 2008
Before I ever knew anything of politics in my early youth, I dreamt the dream of communal unity at heart. I shall jump in the evening of my life, like a child to feel that dream has been realised in this life….
The vista before me seems to me to be, as it must be to you, too glorious to be true. Yet like a child in a famous picture, drawn by a famous picture, drawn by a famous painter, I shall not be happy till I have got it. I live and want to live for no lesser goal.
M.K. Gandhi
(Harijan, January 18, 1948)
OBSERVING 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF GANDHIJI’S MARTYRDOM
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Darkness in Pakistan
26 January 2008, by Tariq Ali
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Innards Of the Indian State!
26 January 2008, by D. Bandyopadhyay
[(BOOK REVIEW)]
Political Violence and the Police in India by K.S. Subramanian; Sage Publication India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; pages 257; Price 350/-
When an insider writes about an organisation which he had served throughout his career and with
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The Other India and Media
26 January 2008, by Suhas Borker
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People’s Struggles for Equality in Society
26 January 2008, by Arun Kumar
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Watershed Management—India’s Crying Need
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Modiphobia to Modiphoria
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Threat To The Nation
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