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…
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 The author cites many historical references to prove that RSS and Hindumahasabha and their ideologue Veer Savarkar, and BJP today, had and have played games to put the blame of partition of India on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…
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…
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…
Gandhi in September 1947 – stand for communal harmony
What was Mahatma Gandhi trying to do immediately after India became independent? Gandhi was trying to bring peace between the warring Hindus and Muslims in the aftermath of the partition. He knew that his attempt could result in his getting killed by the “lathis” of both the warring groups. Watch this short clip of what…