Nathuram Godse fired two bullets into Gandhi’s stomach and one into the chest. Bapu said ‘Rama, Rama’; and then life left him

Living in the company of impending greatness

‘Hindus were in Muslim localities and Muslims were in Hindu areas, as if nothing had ever happened! Everyone said that all this was due to Gandhi Baba’

It is the capacity to hear the inner voice that for Gandhi reveals the distance he has traversed in his quest. Each invocation of the inner voice indicated to him his submission to God. This listening required proximity with oneself. This proximity could be attained through the practice of ahimsa

The relationship between Gandhi and his grandniece Manu

Ananya Vajpeyi’s book Righteous Republic is a reminder of the moral quest that set the tone of the freedom movement, of leaders whose lifelong aim was to deny violence legitimacy. Sadly, our political parties have seceded from this moral realm

With this novel, Sudhir Kakar’s transition from psychoanalyst to fiction writer has finally been successful.

Narendra Modi is a man of few words, but he chooses them well to fabricate his vision of a Hindu society and ignore uncomfortable realities