Swami Agnivesh was a radical reformer who was a genuine secularist in a saffron robe, and as a result, he bore the brunt of assaults by the saffron brigade. He could have easily joined the saffron political bandwagon by riding the anti-minority, anti-secular tide, but he didn’t. This is a tribute to a fearless …
Prashant Bhushan’s case brings to mind the sedition case against Lokmanya Tilak and how it influenced the Indian freedom movement against the British empire. Prashant Bhushan’s statement after the Supreme Court granted him a two to three day concession to reconsider his tweets has left the Apex court with little choice. They are faced with …
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The freedom movement for Indian independence and a free India stood against the mighty British Empire and sounded the death knell for colonialism across the world. By comparing it to an agitation to build the Ram temple, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has devalued the freedom struggle. Mani Shankar Aiyar has asked of Congress leaders, “……rather …
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India is about to complete one full year of the second term of the Modi government. It has already felt like the longest political year of the present era. In September 2018, the Union Human Resource Development Ministry issued a circular that demanded that all education institutes must celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Indian …
While schools, colleges, examinations, business meetings, social and cultural gatherings are cancelled or postponed, the horse-trading of MLAs continues in Madhya Pradesh. While the medical practitioners and sanitation workers are courageously battling to prevent the outbreak of the coronavirus, a recently retired Chief Justice of India took his oath as a Rajya Sabha member. .In …
The New Year will be decisive to determine the future of the constitution, of India, and millions of Indians. The year 2019 began with an uncertain political future for Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and is drawing to a close with uncertainty about the idea of India as envisaged by the freedom movement and enshrined in …
