The Historic Trial of Gandhi

The Historic Trial of Gandhi This was Mahatma Gandhi’s first trial in Indian Court after he was arrested for civil disobedience movement in the country, that started with his non-violent beliefs. Mahatma wanted to try out mass civil disobedience at Bardoli taluka, near Ahmedabad, so that he could see that the campaign remained non-violent and...

Majhihira Ashram- A Pilgrimage

Shri Chitta Bhusan Dasgupta, the youngest of five siblings, was born on 6th June 1915 in Patna to Rishi Nibaran Chandra Dasgupta, who was Head Master of Purulia District School. Purulia at that time was a township in the district of Manbhum in the State of Bihar. Shri Rishi Nibaran Chandra Dasgupta left his job...

SUBHAS BOSE & TRIPURI 1939 NARRATIVE

TRIPURI VICTORY OF SUBHAS WAS ANNOUNCED ON JANUARY 30,1939 STATEMENT TO THE PRESS BY MAHATMA GANDHI BARDOLI, January 31, 1939 Shri Subhas Bose has achieved a decisive victory over his opponent, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya. I must confess that from the very beginning I was decidedly against his re-election for reasons into which I need not...

75 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE Happy 75th Anniversary to all fellow Indians, renew your vows of 1947 and rejoice, this is a celebration of our making and not of this Government. To me, the enjoyment and pride are based on the selfless struggle of countless people who have gone through it, being of various shades and...

MAY DAY

“The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.” – yelled August Spies from the gallows. That was his statement who was executed along with others after they were arrested and convicted of murder. International Workers’ Day, or MAY DAY, commemorates the historic struggle of working...

PC MAHALANOBIS

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc FRS (29June 1893 –28 June 1972) Today, being 125th birth anniversary of a great teacher as well as a nation builder, which is rarely seen in recent times, I thought it fit to commemorate this great person in this page. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis belonged to a family of Bengali...

INDIA AND ITS SPIRITUALISM

Thoreau, the American philosopher who practiced Hindu tenets in his own life writes- “The sweltering inhabitants of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta drink at my well. In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogenic philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which...

15TH AUGUST

India’s date of independence was hand-crafted by Rajendra Prasad and an astrologer. When the British agreed to leave the country in 1947, Rajendra Prasad called upon Pandit Vyas to come to the capital and forecast India’s future after independence. Vyas then predicted that India should be declared independent on either 14 or 15 August, as...

Introduction

I am not a fool to commit that my writings are beyond arguments and they are necessarily above board. My predilections have reasons and  from a personal perspective that has been built over time. As EH Carr writes- “ When we attempt to answer the question ‘What is history?’ our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects...