Outside the railway station in Pietermaritzburg is a statue of a historic figure. The unveiling coincided with the centenary of an event that ultimately resulted in India attaining independence. It was 120 years ago when he was thrown off a train at
A large number of disputes can be settled outside the courtroom. This is less expensive for the parties and eases pressure on courts Mr. Gopal Subramanium's article in The Hindu (editorial page, When judges don't adjudicate enough, May 1, 2013) gives
Tilonia and Dev Dungri are the Sabarmati and Sevagram of our times, says Gopalkrishna Gandhi Aruna and Bunker Roy are a couple out of the ordinary. That phrase a couple out of the ordinary was used, in a rare example of self-endorsement, by Mohandas
The government must stop tinkering with this public service provider in the name of coalition dharma. There should be a freeze on adding passenger trains and the focus must shift to improving existing services. A Railway Minister is sacked midway
This week, the National Archives here in New Delhi released a set of letters between Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and a close friend from his South African days, Hermann Kallenbach, a German Jewish architect. Cue a set of ludicrous "Gay Gandhi"
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is used to praise but on Friday the accolades came from some of India's richest businessmen. "In Narendra bhai, we have a leader with a grand vision... Gujarat has been a pioneer state in infrastructure giving it
Rajagopalachari to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Devadas Gandhi and Gopalakrishna Gandhi. Their letters give a glimpse of the struggle to keep alive the nationalist ideals in the face of frustrations Here is an unusual book...But this book which
Rajagopalachari was known as the Mahatma's southern warrior, which he was in his own unusual way Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was a man of books, both as an attentive reader and a writer of masterpieces. But it was in the writing of letters that he
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