Ramachandra Guha: महान गांधीवादी की स्मृति, गांधी जी के सचिव महादेव देसाई की कहानी / Remembering the Greatest Gandhian
महात्मा गांधी के सचिव महादेव देसाई का 15 अगस्त, 1942 को निधन हो गया। अपने अंतिम दिनों में जब गांधी को एक ओर हिंदू-मुसलमान तनाव को दूर करने और दूसरी ओर नेहरू और पटेल की बढ़ती दूरियों को कम करने के प्रयास करने पड़ रहे थे, तब उन्होंने कहा था कि महादेव होते तो यह नौबत नहीं आती। सारे भारतीयों की तरह मैं भी यह सोचते हुआ बड़ा हुआ कि 15 अगस्त वह दिन है, 1947 में जिस दिन स्वतंत्र भारत की पहली सरकार ने शपथ ली थी। हालांकि हाल के वर्षों में इस दिन ने मेरे लिए एक अलग मायने दिए हैं, जिसका पहले से संबंध नहीं है।
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मेरी चेतना में 15 अगस्त, 1947 के साथ 15 अगस्त, 1942 भी जुड़ चुका है, जिस दिन जेल में महादेव देसाई का निधन हुआ था। उनके योगदान के बिना भारत शायद कभी ब्रिटिश राज से मुक्त नहीं हो पाता, और फिर भी इस महान देशभक्त और स्वतंत्रता सेनानी को आज तक वह सम्मान नहीं मिला, जिसके वह हकदार थे।...
Dennis
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Remembering the Greatest Gandhian
Like all other Indians, I grew up thinking of August 15 as
the day when, back in 1947, the first government of independent India was sworn
into office. However, in recent years the day has acquired for me another
meaning, not unrelated to the first. In my consciousness, August 15, 1947, has
been joined by August 15, 1942, which is the day that Mahadev Desai died in
prison. Without his contributions, India might never have become free of
British rule at all, and yet this great patriot and freedom fighter remains
largely unhonoured today.
Perhaps he would have wanted it that way. From the time he
joined Gandhi in Ahmedabad in 1917 until his death in the Aga Khan Palace a
quarter of a century later, Mahadev entirely submerged himself in the service
of the Mahatma. He was Gandhi’s secretary, typist, translator, counsellor,
courier, interlocutor, trouble-shooter and much more. He even cooked for his
Master, his khichdi in particular attracting Gandhi’s praise…
Dilip Simeon: The Compass We Lost
Satyagraha
- An answer to modern nihilism
THE DELHI DECLARATION OF JANUARY 18, 1948
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13-18, 1948
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Anil Nauriya: The making of Gandhi in South Africa and after
Martin Luther King on Mahatma Gandhi: "My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence", September 1958
Do our leaders want to certify political assassination?
ANIL NAURIYA: Manufacturing Memory
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
নিজেদের মতে , নিজেদের গান l Citizens United!
The
Futility of Common Sense: An Essay on Ahimsa
"Remember Gandhi. Remember what we did to him
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Unlawful: Text of GOI communique February 4, 1948
Smruti Koppikar - Maharashtra CM has no will to pursue my
father’s murder
Petition
in Supreme Court Accuses NIA of Soft-Pedaling Hindutva Terror Cases
Read about the alterations made by the NDA government in Gandhi's collected works. Hundreds of whimsical deletions and changes were noticed by well-known scholars & Gandhians in India and around the world, who viewed them as an insult to scholarship, and demanded an end to such attempts to play with historical documents. Here's the history of the controversy. Tridip Suhrud, now director of Sabarmati Ashram, wrote a detailed analysis of this shameless behaviour in EPW in November 2004. It was only after the defeat of the NDA government that the fraudulently 'revised' edition of the CWMG was withdrawn, in 2005.
Rabindranath Tagore's essay on the cult of the nation
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - Antinomies of
Nationalism and Rabindranath Tagore
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