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• ACN Nambiar: An Unknown Freedom-Fighter Abroad | B P Mathur

  15 October 2021, by B P Mathur

  As we enter the 75th year of our freedom, the most appropriate thing to do is to pay homage to our freedom fighters by remembering the sacrifices, trial and tribulations they have gone through. This would inspire our countrymen, particularly youths and develop a spirit of nationalism and patriotism in them, so necessary for nation building. During our long struggle for freedom, a band of daring youths went abroad to Europe, USA and other places to escape the iron hand of British rulers and (…)

• Porbandar, Phulpur: Lessons to Learn | TJS George

  15 October 2021, by T J S George

  Must things go from bad to worse as civilisation progresses? Of course not. In civilised societies everyday routines go from good to better. New York’s subway system, one of the largest in the world, has coped very well with the city’s growth in population as well as in daily activities. London’s underground, fondly called the Tube, is ever popular. Those who have lived even for a month in London will have a romantic feeling about stations like Piccadilly, King’s Cross and Victoria. (…)

• Jalianwala Bagh: Centenary commemoration by Renovation or Destruction of Monumental History | Chaman Lal

  15 October 2021, by Chaman Lal

  Chaman Lal*
  Jallianwala Bagh the most iconic symbol of Indian freedom struggle is in news on its reopening in a renovated form, which started a few years ago. There are few internationally known iconic symbols of colonial and imperialist repression on the people during their colonial regime in Asian, African and some other victim countries of the world. The horror saga of repression on people is not a new phenomenon, it is there since the beginning of the human society turned into (…)

• Priyanka is yet to motivate her leaders to stand by the poor and Dalits of Uttar Pradesh | Arun Srivastava

  15 October 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  Priyanka Gandhi is using all her might to rejuvenate the party rank and file and make them to take the BJP head on. During recent years Priyanka has built strong case against the Yogi government but ironically the state leaders of the party have miserably failed to take the struggles to its logical end and establish a strong connect with Dalits and harijans, those who really matter in UP politics. People recall how the victims of Sonbhadra, where tribal people were (…)

• Climate Change and Dormant Viruses | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu

  15 October 2021

  by Pavittarbir Singh Saggu*
  Because of climate change, permafrost is thawing, releasing viruses and bacteria that have been dormant for thousands of years, posing potentially catastrophic risks to humans and ecosystems.
  When a strange illness struck the Siberian tundra during the 2016 summer heatwave, a group of reindeer herders became ill and it also caused the loss of 2500 reindeer as well as a 12-year-old boy. Siberian plague, which was last seen in 1941 in the region, was thought to (…)

• Awarding a Writer in Exile | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 October 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents” (Nobel Committee citation). So far, he has published ten novels and a number of short stories.
  Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, East Africa, in 1948, moved to England as a refugee in the 1960s and got settled there. According to the Guardian, Gurnah left (…)

• Rehabilitating the Mahatma | Sukumaran C.V.

  15 October 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  Gandhi’s moral idealism, informed by political realism, hoped for a world order without war....This was the key difference between the state as envisaged by Gandhi and the one conceptualized by everyone else, including his disciple Jawaharlal Nehru.—The authors of The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir.
  ’Had Gandhi not been killed in 1948, had he been alive atleast for five more years,’ I have often used to think, ’India would not have remained a country of rampant inequalities.’
  The (…)

• Gandhi vs. Ambedkar Debates and Search for Real Swaraj | Badre Alam Khan

  15 October 2021, by Badre Alam Khan

  To celebrate 152 Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi, on the one hand, most of the political parties from the Left to Right (barring a section of Ambedkarites) including secular parties are busy in celebrating Gandhi’s Jayanti with much compassion and commitment. In this respect, civil society and public intellectuals have written several articles in the newspapers and posted messages on social media to express their tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on said occasion. On the other, a section of Hindu (…)

• Nah, I am not going to wait till 10 December, World Human Rights Day. . . | Humra Quraishi

  15 October 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  13 October 2021
  Nah, I am not going to wait till 10 December, World Human Rights Day, to detail the horrific human rights violations ongoing here, in our country, in these current times. Where the actual or the official killers are seldom caught and nailed. It’s the unofficial ones and those labeled ‘sympathizers’ who get hounded and harassed to such an extent that they sit ruined for generations to come.
  Mind you, the prime accused killer in the Lakhimpur Kheri killings (…)

• Shakti Sinha: A liberal man in Saffron Clothes leaves the Public Domain | Gautam Sen

  15 October 2021

  by Gautam Sen *
  Obituary of a Public Figure who could be Friend to Many
  Shakti Sinha went away unobtrusively on 4th October 2021 plus. After living a life of 64 years plus, full of zest and involvement in affairs of the state, of his friends and acquaintances, and in myriad facets of public life, Shaktiji left for the eternal world. I still remember 11th May 1998, a young virtually college lecturer-like person - actually then Joint Secretary in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s (…)