Recalling Dr Ambedkar’s Prescient Vision of 1945
How do we see the calls for genocide and social boycott of Muslims in India in light of what Dr B.R. Ambedkar and the Indian Constitution say? India is beset not only with calls of genocide against Muslims by rabid Hindu seers in “dharam sansads” but also calls of many influential supporters of the Government…
Has the Constitution Failed us or have we Failed the Constitution?
President KR Narayanan had posed the rhetorical question to save the Constitution from a previous assault on it. Satya Narayana Sahu in his article in NEWSclick dated 20th August,2023 cites Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) who has laboured on the right-wingers’ covert theme of jettisoning the idea…
Independence Day Speech of PM Narendra Modi – Quo Vadis?
In his article of 17-Aug-23 published in NEWSclick, Satya Narayana Sahu writes about the phoney “thousand-year foreign rule” right-wingers’ narrative invoked repeatedly by Narendra Modi in his important speeches – before the US Congress three months ago and in the Independence Day address from the Red Fort two days ago. This narrative is one rejected…
Quit India Movement
10-Aug-23 Satya Narayana Sahu writes in an article in The Wire, about the importance of Quit India Movement – Gandhi’s call was not just for gaining independence from the British rule. Apart from this core goal, the Quit India movement had huge dimensions covering freedom of press and democracy which are in serious danger in…
How our leaders failed to save Mahatma Gandhi from the bullets of Godse
On the birth anniversary of VD Savarkar today, 28th May, 2023 when the New Parliament was inaugurated by PM Modi, after he paid a floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, it is worth recalling the events of January 1948. The intrigues before and after Mahatma Gandhi’s murder are revealed in this amazing detailed article by Ravi…
President of India snubbed by “The Boss” multiple times; New Parliament should be the last straw
“The Boss”, freshly minted moniker bestowed upon PM, Modi by his Australian counter part has served to distract and salvage his severely battered image among his devout (often described as cult) followers. Today, on 28th May, the birth anniversary of VD Savarkar, the second spectacle is in progress. The New Parliament inaugural is happening sans…
Critical Remarks on Ramcharitmanas Mirror Thoughts of Vivekananda, Gandhi
“This article by S.N. Sahu published in Newsclick may help to further the conversation between the supporters of status quo in the name of traditional culture and proponents of change towards egalitarian Hindu Order.” ~ Prof. Anand Kumar, President SCH Link
27th February 2002 + 21 years – Majoritarianism in today’s India needs to be pushed back
साथियों आजसे एक सप्ताह बाद गुजरात दंगों के इक्कीस साल पूरे होने वाले हैं ! ( 27 फरवरी 2002 ) और जिस दंगे की राजनीति करने के कारण ही ! वर्तमान सत्ताधारी दल का शासन, आज भारत जैसे बहुधर्मिय देश के उपर होना ! देश की एकता और अखंडता के लिए खतरनाक है ! इसलिए…
Non-cooperation movement
This article by Anil Nauriya was published in India International Centre Quarterly (IIC Q) VOLUME 48 AUTUMN 2021 NUMBER 2 The momentous movement of hundred years ago like the 1857 India Rising, challenged the British Colonial rule with a force of logic and non-violence that was far more impactful. Firstly, it helped Indians to articulate…
Gandhi and his assassins
This article by Anil Nauriya was published in Research Gate in 2019. The author cites many historical references to prove that RSS and Hindumahasabha and their ideologue Veer Savarkar, and BJP today, had and have played games to put the blame of partition of India on Mahatma Gandhi when in reality, they were themselves the…