Category: Modern Indian History

W’end Links: Nehru, Yoga, Israel and Caste Census

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...

I bet you forgot…

…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...

“Ambedkar’s Desiderata” – Excerpts

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...

An open letter to BalaSaheb from a Marathi Manoos

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...