Bhagat Singh and Indian historians on May 2, 2016More than 100 years ago, while numerating “India and her problems”, Swami Vivekananda said prophetically: “The child is taken to school, and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, the second thing that his grandfather is a lunatic, the third thing that all his teachers are hypocrites, the fourth, that […]
Why Gandhi still awaits his Boswell on March 27, 2016At the height of the khadi movement, when Mahatma Gandhi exhorted everyone to boycott foreign clothes, Kasturba, his wife, complained that she found it difficult to wear a khadi sari and cook, as it was too heavy while she was doing home chores. When Gandhi heard this, he got extremely annoyed and asked her not […]