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The Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva Legacies in the Socialist and National Movements in India: A Preliminary Exploration

This article authored by Anil Nauriya was published in Mainstream Weekly of 18th February 2023. 19th February 2023 happens to be the 67th death anniversary of Acharya Narendra Dev, a prominent freedom fighter and a “socialist” who collaborated throughout his life with Jawaharlal Nehru. He was interned in the Ahmednagar Fort during 1942-45 when Nehru…

Created Date : February 18, 2023

A letter to Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi

माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री. नरेंद्र दामोदरदास मोदीजी नमस्कार आपने लोकसभा में कहा कि “मुझे 140 करोड जनसंख्या के देश की जनता के आशिर्वाद का कवच है !” यह बात गलत है ! क्योंकि अभितक के भारतीय चुनाव में किसी भी दल को शत-प्रतिशत मतदाताओं ने मत देने का कोई भी रेकॉर्ड नही है ! और रही…

Created Date : February 10, 2023

Dr Suresh Khairnar – library

Dr. Suresh Khairnar, a Committee Member of SCH has published many articles, participated in debates and delivered many lectures. Some of these can be found from the links below: Articles published on the portal Chauthi Duniya Link of his shows It is likely the above and newer articles may appear in blog posts with searchable…

Created Date : February 3, 2023

Netaji Subhas Chandra’s views on right wingers and secularism

Netaji Subhas Candra Bose was no friend of RSS and Hindu Mahasabha. He was a staunch secularist. He respected Congress Leaders; he named INA brigades after them. BJP is spreading canard about the differences between Netaji and Nehru and distorting history. There is enough documentation available but BJP knows that false propaganda works when it…

Created Date : January 25, 2023

Savarkar versus Gandhi on the compulsions of Two Nations

It was Savarkar who wanted two nations – one for Hindus and a second for Muslims; according to him, Muslims had no place in the Nation for Hindus because they could not live together. Jinnah and Savarkar were of the same mould – only Savarkar was the mirror image of Jinnah. On the other hand,…

Created Date : October 5, 2022

Civil Disobedience of Gandhi and the methods of agitations today

Gandhi had the persuasion and influence over the people of India like none else, however, it was not strong enough to meet the exacting standards he set out. Gandhi demanded much more than civility of the people before he would agree to join their agitations. The methods of protests were non-cooperation and civil disobedience. He…

Created Date : October 5, 2022

Gandhi did try to save Bhagat Singh – contrary to what many critics charge

Dhruv Rathee 1-Oct-21 Gandhi did try to save Bhagat Singh .. and more interesting facts about right wingers contrasted.. https://youtu.be/pbr4-Thu1Lw 23-Mar-22 The Wire Article republished on the death anniversary of the three martyrs – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev – were hanged by the British colonial rulers on 23-Mar-31. Excerpts: Eighty-five years ago, on March…

Created Date : October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022 Terms Anil Srivastava

Naseeruddin Shah on Hindi Divas

Naseeruddin Shah recites a poem on Hindi Divas 2 minute clip https://youtu.be/W3n1YuqOY-U  

Created Date : September 19, 2022

Gandhi’s assassination – myths and reality

There is a vicious video in circulation regarding Gandhiji’s assassination and seeking to glorify  Gandhiji’s assassins. As we have been discussing, these things need to be countered in a big way. Am sending some links to a few of my writings that might be helpful: The first is a link to my piece “Notions of…

Created Date : September 12, 2022

The Non-cooperation Movement

1 INTRODUCTION The Centenary of the non-cooperation struggle (as also the Centenary of the all-India protest against the Rowlatt legislation of 1919) inevitably brings together memories and peoples of the entire subcontinent and beyond (Nauriya, 2006). Like the 1919 all-India protest over the Rowlatt legislation, the Non-cooperation Movement stretched in geographical scope from Peshawar to…

Created Date : September 12, 2022