Pinarayi Vijayan’s assessment of Sri Narayana Guru must be obligatorily dismissed and dumped as the rantings of an ageing and disoriented communist In a remarkably succinct and moving assessment of the iconic Sri Narayana Guru, legendary philosopher-scholar-monk of the Ramakrishna Order and its thirteenth president Swami Ranganathananda describes a unique …

Jinnah’s demand for separate Muslim homelands sparked fierce opposition, with leaders like Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and BR Ambedkar rallying for Hindu unity and an indivisible India In his voluminous study ‘Pathway to India’s Partition’, historian Bimal Prasad, observes that in January 1940, Jinnah wrote to Mahatma Gandhi, in response …

For many of our generation, then in college, Vajpayee becoming Prime Minister was the response that we had yearned for to Congress’s politics of status quoism and entitlement. It was the first triumph, at the national level, of the politics of an alternate vision The commemoration of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s centenary will …