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Hind Swaraj: Hundred Years After — How Relevant is it Today?

Jolly M. Kaul — 2010-02-18T17:39:11Z

Introduction
Hind Swaraj, in a sense Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi's Manifesto, was written between November 13 and November 22 on board the ship Kildoman Castle on his return trip from England to South Africa in 1909. It is considered Gandhiji's seminal work, the theoretical basis of his life's mission. He has said in his own foreword to the English translation:
‘These views are mine because I hope to act according to them. They are almost a part of my being… But yet they are not (…)

- 2010

Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Jolly M. Kaul — 2009-12-26T16:43:15Z

The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, was a concrete barrier which completely enclosed the city of West Berlin that thus became an enclave deep inside the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Although there had been severe restrictions on emigration to the West even before the Wall was erected—since there was a separate and much longer Inner German Border (IGB) separating East Germany from the West—a large number of East Germans, estimated around three-and-a-half million, had been able to cross (…)

- December 2009