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To Pen the Swadeshi Narrative

Nikita Doval

Ratnam pens and Sulekha ink were started in response to Gandhi’s call for self-reliance in the 1930s. But how have the instruments that helped write history fared themselves?

Sex and the Saint

Madhavankutty Pillai

In every domain of life, he was a player of infinite games and, therefore, his worldview becomes, in some ways, quite inaccessible to us. We have to remember that one of the litmus tests of Gandhi, and he’s absolutely firm about it, is that you never do anything to someone else that you do not first do to yourself. You never make a demand of someone else that you do not first make of yourself

Guru Darshan

Ullekh NP

The 1925 dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi and Sree Narayana Guru was a pleasant precursor to the acrimonious Gandhi-Ambedkar debate of the 1930s

A Small Still Voice

Tridip Suhrud

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

Howdy, Gandhi

S Prasannarajan

There will always be a Gandhian piece of wisdom to make your politics not retro-cool but smart and urgent

An Old Theory in the Light of New Science

Sudeep Paul

Rakhigarhi does not end the Aryan invasion debate but it provides more accurate answers to who we are

The Origins

Lhendup G Bhutia

The debate on Aryan migration has long divided Indian academics into opposing camps. Two recent genetic studies appear to have solved the mystery of where we come from by offering fresh insight into who the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation really were