August 2004

Those who swim against the current...

Submitted by Ram on August 15, 2004

15.08.2004

I was born long after Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated - but the closest I came to meeting another such great man was in 1993, when I had the good fortune of shaking hands with Sunderlal Bahuguna. He had just delivered a speech at the India International Centre, New Delhi, on the implications of building the Tehri Dam.

Gandhi in Palestine?

Submitted by Ram on August 13, 2004

13.08.2004

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, is to kick off an unarmed Palestinian movement against Israeli occupation which is being launched by a group of social and political activists in Ramallah. This was a news item in the Indian Express newspaper.

The Talibanisation of Indian society

Submitted by Ram on August 10, 2004

10.08.2004

A lot of Indians, especially the "educated" Hindus with comfortable incomes and access to the internet, are deluding themselves into imagining that they are defending India and Hindu culture. They have fully and thoroughly succumbed to the right wing, fascist ideology.

Caste away the caste system - for good!