Mainstream Weekly

Women's Resurgence: The Gandhi - Nehru Alchemy

Aruna Asaf Ali — 2013-05-27T19:32:53Z

While remembering Jawaharlal Nehru on his fortyninth death anniversary this year on May 27, we reproduce some of the tributes paid to his abiding memory by eminent personalities who were also members of the National Committee set up for the commemoration of Nehru's birth centenary. These contributions, as well as of others, came out in book form on November 14, 1989 following yearlong commemoration of Nehru's birth centenary.
Jawaharlal Nehru's contribution in the post-independence years (…)

- 2013

Women's Resurgence: The Gandhi-Nehru Alchemy

Aruna Asaf Ali — 2010-06-01T13:43:03Z

Jawaharlal Nehru's contribution in the post-independence years to improving the status of Indian women, specially through the reform of Hindu law, is part of recent history and is fairly well known. In this article I shall attempt, as one who was a witness to and participant in the freedom struggle in an earlier era, to narrate to the present generation the story of how Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, between them, exercised an alchemy that turned the common clay of Indian humanity into (…)

- 2010

An Agenda for National Renewal

Aruna Asaf Ali — 2009-07-18T10:07:45Z

The following paper by the late Aruna Asaf Ali was received from her in November 1991. The paper was prepared in response to a request from the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) for a publication to be edited by Professor Upendra Baxi (former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University), Dr (Mrs) Alice Jacob (Research Professor, Indian Law Institute) and Tarlok Singh. This paper was published in IASSI Quarterly, Vol. 14, nos. 3 and 4, January-June 1996. It was reproduced from (…)

- July 2009