It is unbelievable that a budding star actor suddenly fades away so unceremoniously. It was suicide or anything else? Not still clear. There are umpteen questions around the sad end of Sushant Singh Rajput, which still cry to reason out what might have happened; everybody is groping amid darkness of facts and fiction and anticipation […]
Had Krishna Sobti, the eminent Hindi novelist, not died this January, she would have renovated our appreciation of the truth about freedom and Partition occurring together. We habitually forget this truth each time we learn it. An interview she gave to Partition scholar Alok Bhalla is one among many repositories of the insight she brought […]
Introduction The stage is all set to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with great fanfare on October 2, 2019. It is a pleasant moment for a proud nation to pay sincere gratitude and tributes to the Father of the Nation. This is also an occasion to remember his ideals, vision, philosophy, programmes […]
Raj Yogendra Veer Swami, 93, is a freedom fighter from Karnataka. He still remembers the trials and travails of the freedom movement and how Mahatma Gandhi shaped a movement to uproot the mighty British Empire. Today, however, he is convinced that had Gandhi been alive, he would have been defamed and made to regret his […]