Articles by Rajmohan Gandhi
Preparing our children to encounter the world
Erasures and deletions of inconvenient truths from textbooks cannot enable them to rise to global leadership
Updated on Jun 22, 2024 08:53 PM IST
Mahatma Gandhi, a global citizen of his time and ours
African Americans were speaking and writing about Gandhi from 1917, if not earlier, i.e. almost four decades before King burst upon the American scene.
Published on Jun 02, 2024 11:26 PM IST
State of democracy is the Opposition’s battle cry
“BJP’s washing machine” is surely one phrase that will figure in future histories of Indian democracy.
Published on Apr 09, 2024 10:06 PM IST
Ram Mandir and a complicated history
The magnificent new temple in Ayodhya, which will attract excitement and crowds, will have to find ways of liberating itself from its tumultuous past
Published on Jan 23, 2024 11:59 PM IST
Listening and learning to heal history’s wounds
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul’s plea for a truth and reconciliation commission in Jammu and Kashmir calls for a broader conversation
Published on Dec 23, 2023 11:01 PM IST
Missing in Gaza: Global leaders & peacemakers
Is there a group of influential countries working to take forward the merciful truce towards mutually acceptable coexistence between Israel and Palestine?
Published on Nov 28, 2023 10:12 PM IST
The long road from Noakhali to Manipur
Mahatma Gandhi did not get all the results he desired in Noakhali, but he got some. In any case, he had confronted the problem.
Updated on Oct 02, 2023 05:56 PM IST
A remarkable foray into contemporary India
Neerja Chowdhury's new book, "How Prime Ministers Decide," provides an inside account of India's power struggles over the past four decades.
Published on Aug 07, 2023 08:22 AM IST
In memory of Frontier Gandhi, a plea for justice for Faisal Khan
That India would permit the continuing incarceration of a gallant man who restarted, in Delhi and elsewhere in the country, the work of the Khudai Khidmatgars is not a thought I can easily stomach.
Updated on Nov 30, 2020 07:00 AM IST
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What religion meant to the Mahatma
For him, religion was not nationality. All citizens, irrespective of their beliefs, had a right to India
Published on Oct 02, 2019 05:55 PM IST
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Choose your friends
Government and civil society must abjure Ramdev's company. Rajmohan Gandhi writes.
Updated on Jun 10, 2011 09:59 PM IST
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Don't ban book: Bapu grandson
A long time ago, in 1927 in fact, when a pro-empire American woman called Katherine Mayo wrote an India-damning book called Mother India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi called the book "a drain-inspector's report". Rajmohan Gandhi writes.
Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:01 PM IST
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Beneath the surface
Rajmohan Gandhi on the Mahatma’s belief that even a violent fight against tyranny is better than cowardice.
Updated on Jan 25, 2011 11:09 PM IST
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A merger of interests
Today the bottom-line of India’s Pakistan policy must be to encourage the isolation of its violent jihadists, a process that Pakistani society and many of its leaders, civilian and military, seem to have initiated, writes Rajmohan Gandhi.
Updated on Jan 01, 2010 10:57 PM IST
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Lal before the storm
For the first time, an important political leader has suggested that not just the terrorists but all the people of the Kashmir Valley are adversaries — foes of the Motherland, writes Rajmohan Gandhi.
Updated on Aug 19, 2008 10:56 PM IST
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