Mahatma Gandhi

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An Elegy for Gandhi’s Un-Gandhian India

When you retrace Gandhi’s steps to Dandi you get to understand what ‘vikas’ means and what it does not mean for Gujarat and for all of India today. A most unusual book about a most unusual journey.
▶20-Feb-2023
Sudhir Chandra

Thinking with Hands

'Gandhi was aware that intellectual labour was necessary for the culture of the mind and accepted the necessity of a division of labour, but not the idea that bodily labour had to be confined to…
▶18-Jan-2022
Tridip Suhrud
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‘Dear Mr. Gandhi’

The first two volumes of 'Letters to Gandhi', covering 1889-1910, trace a fine-grained texture of Gandhi’s life in the initial decades of public life. They offer vignettes of a rapid rise…
▶25-Nov-2021
Venu Madhav Govindu
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Examining the Making of the Constitution

At the dawn of independence, the liberal traditions that underpin a constitutional democracy were absent in India. How did the framers of the Constitution deal with this challenge?
▶23-Jun-2020
Christophe Jaffrelot

Mahatma Gandhi Would Have Approved

On the 72nd death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, we can state that the Mahatma would have supported the peaceful nation-wide protests against measures that would discriminate between citizens based…
▶29-Jan-2020
Harsh Mander

When the Past Melts

Bhagat Singh always surrounded himself with a library. His eclectic reading tastes ranged from the classical tradition to high modernity. Decoding his reading habits reveals a futuristic paradigm for…
▶09-Dec-2019
Harjot Oberoi
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Life with the Mahatma

The first volume of the translation of the diaries of Manu Gandhi, niece of Mohandas Gandhi, give a detailed account of life at the Aga Khan Palace jail in Pune where the Mahatma was interned during…
▶26-Nov-2019
Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Gandhi: A Player of Infinite Games

Even radical dissenters have experimented within some boundaries. Gandhi played with boundaries themselves in nearly every domain of life — politics, sexuality, culture, knowledge. He was uniquely a…
▶26-Sep-2019
Vinay Lal