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Nikhilda's Eternal Silence

Madhu Dandavate — 2014-11-02T10:00:51Z

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Nikhilda's Eternal Silence

Madhu Dandavate — 2008-11-04T16:19:32Z

Nikhil Chakravartty, affectionately called by his friends and colleagues as Nikhilda, died on June 27, 1998. He was a veteran journalist, a historian, a scholar, an intellectual with integrity and conviction, a Leftist shorn of dogmatism and, above all, a warm human being with a spirit of understanding and tolerance that helped him evolve a consensus on several controversial issues.
Nikhilda believed that nothing in the world was the last word in history, which was ever evolving and (…)

- November 1, 2008

Remembering Hiren Mukerjee

Madhu Dandavate — 2007-12-03T16:08:23Z

How do I remember Hiren Mukerjee after his recent death? I took out a book from the shelf with the caption Gandhiji—A Study written by him and published in 1958.
In the ‘Last Phase', in the concluding chapter of this book, Hiren Mukerjee wrote:
When at last, by devious pathways, freedom came to a partitioned India, Gandhi did not have long to live, and he was too anguished even to wish to live much longer. He had often before expressed the desire to live to be a hundred and twentyfive (…)

- December 1, 2007