Rajmohan Gandhi
The writer is research professor at Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Thu, Apr 22, 2021
PM Modi must in clear language tell the Indian people and the world that his government will protect tolerance, decency and equal human rights.
Sat, Mar 06, 2021
Rajmohan Gandhi writes: PM Modi has a lot in common with the former US president and the Republican Party’s submission to Trump is bound to invite questions about the BJP.
Mon, Feb 08, 2021
Who in the BJP or the Hindutva parivaar are the counterparts of McConnell and Liz Cheney? Quiet disapproval of Modi-Shah's policies and responses must exist within the parivaar. Common sense tells us that. Competitive human nature ensures that.
Tue, Jan 19, 2021
“Hindu consolidation” against Muslims is the political equivalent in India for the American call, open or subtle, for white supremacy.
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
For any of us to wait for some great leader or to keep silent until a unified opposition emerges, is to acquiesce in daily deeds of injustice.
Mon, Nov 30, 2020
They love the flag, they love the White America that is sailing away, they love America’s dominance in the world, they love their traditional jobs. They love it when Trump implies that the flag, the gun, and the cross are three different words for the same thing.
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
In any case, what the world’s present condition needs, namely bonding between humans, may be more important than the alphabet letters that make up “fraternity”.
Sat, Aug 29, 2020
Once it has a defeated Pakistan on its hands, India may regret its victory. No doubt, it is possible to imagine the forces of a victorious India abandoning, to no one’s peace of mind, a vanquished Pakistan to its fate, something similar, perhaps, to what the US under Trump appears to be doing in respect of Afghanistan.
Tue, Jul 14, 2020
Both must recognise: Pledges of liberty, equality, fraternity and dignity possess much broader pull than hardening notions of nationalism
Sat, Jun 06, 2020
By underscoring the equal vulnerability of every member of the human family, COVID-19 has shown the silliness in blaming persons for their skin-colour, blood-group or religion.
Thu, Feb 13, 2020
Rajmohan Gandhi writes: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blamed Partition on Nehru. Assigning sole or main responsibility for that painful event to Nehru lacks any historical basis. It should be recognised, moreover, that if Partition had not occurred, all the residents of today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh would have been free to move to any corner of today’s India.
Mon, Jan 27, 2020
To imply that Gandhi wanted the Hindu minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to migrate to India, or that a CAA enabling such a migration fulfils Gandhi’s wishes, is to turn history on its head. Gandhi wanted India too to protect its minorities
Wed, Jan 01, 2020
Some have tried to justify the discrimination by citing the circumstances of the 1947 Partition. Can circumstances 72 years ago justify inequality today? Moreover, those circumstances should be honestly recalled.
Thu, Nov 21, 2019
It’s time for the calm Hindu to speak up, reclaim the Hindu platform, and restore sanity to it. For centuries, the serene confidence of everyday Hindus, as also of exceptional Hindu figures, sprang not from how they were treated by others, whether non-Hindu or Hindu, but from their own peace of mind, and their own creativity.
Wed, Oct 09, 2019
Gandhi thought India’s independence would mean little unless it also meant the independence of every Indian.
Mon, Aug 19, 2019
Betrayals may be inevitable in our fallen world. Taking people for granted, however, and doing with them whatever we want without their consent, is going too far.
Mon, Jun 10, 2019
Actions intended to change the state’s status and demographics will intensify alienation
Tue, May 07, 2019
Even if someone then believed that Rajiv had tolerated corruption, would they say to his son 28 years later that “your father ended his life as India’s most corrupt man”?
Tue, Apr 16, 2019
He was unconvinced by RSS chief after 1947 meeting, stood against majoritarianism
Sun, Mar 17, 2019
Indira Gandhi’s audacity, which few foresaw, split the Congress in the 1969 summer and the state of Pakistan in the 1971-72 winter. In March 1971, well before the liberation of Bangladesh, that daring had fetched Indira’s Congress 352 seats out of 545 in a mid-term poll.
Sat, Feb 16, 2019
What Ayodhya needs now is healing, not compromise.
Wed, Feb 06, 2019
Ayodhya’s disputing sides can come together. The Supreme Court can direct them to do so.
Fri, Nov 30, 2018
'Age of terror' may be an inadequate term for our times. Ours is an age where suspicion and loathing infiltrate police stations, courtrooms, newspapers, TV, and dance wildly on social media.
Sun, Oct 28, 2018
On the 31st of this month, when his mammoth statue is unveiled, India will see the Sardar raised to the sky. Here’s a slice of history.
Sun, Oct 28, 2018
Can we get to know, today in our 21st century, a heart that began its life in the 19th century and expired in the middle of the 20th? Researching the Sardar in the late 1980s, I was staggered by his self-sacrifice.
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