Category: Modern Indian History
Start your weekend with these excerpts from a conversation between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and an IAS probationer, Shri Yuvaraj Karan in 1950, reproduced from the print edition of the monthly magazine “Secularism Combat” (thanks...
…the ones who ought to be remembered today. *** 79 years ago on this date *** BHAGAT SINGH, RAJGURU AND SUKHDEV EXECUTED NO “LAST INTERVIEW†WITH RELATIONS DEAD BODIES SECRETLY DISPOSED OF Front Page...
Excerpts from a thought-provoking essay, “Ambedkar’s Desiderata” by Ramachandra Guha (emphasis mine): *** Excerpts begin *** …In his last speech to the Constituent Assembly—delivered on November 25, 1949—Ambedkar issued three warnings that are compellingly...
Adarniya BalaSaheb, Pranaam. I would have written this letter in Marathi but most of my blog readers are Indians. I have never done a survey to find out how many of them are Maharashtrians...
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote a post titled, As the Government sleeps, dark clouds gather on the horizon… In that post, I had carried excerpts from an article by Tarun Vijay that...
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