Personalities

Discussions on popular personalities like Ambedkar, Nehru, Savarkar, etc. are part of this sub-category.

  • The World’s Tallest Statue- It’s Patel’s but Gandhi also deserved one!

    “I do not intend to argue that Patel’s statue shouldn’t have been the tallest but one of Gandhi should have been there besides to visually remind the world of our Mahatma and that a united India of all religions and castes is what even he envisaged, dreamt and died for.”

  • SPB, a voice with the world. A Telugu perspective

    “My journey with SP Balasubrahmanyam may have begun even before I had learned that a song in a film had a playback singer. To claim that nearly every song I heard at the turn of the millennium, in Television Broadcasts, Advertisements, and radio programmes, day in and day out, was his would not be an outright exaggeration.”

  • Freedom at Midnight: Revisiting Gandhi and his vision of India

    Hindustan Standard said, ‘Gandhiji has been killed by his own people for whose redemption he lived. This second crucifixion in the history of the world has been enacted on a Friday – the same day, Jesus was done to death one thousand nine hundred and fifteen years ago. Father, forgive us.’

  • Remembering Munshi Premchand at 140

    [responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Male” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] If we speak in the Indian context, the name that echoes inside the walls of our minds is Dhanpat Rai Shrivastav, popularly known as Munshi Premchand. Few writers have been loved in public and literary circles alike. July 31, 2020 marks his 140th birth anniversary. …