As the campaign for the first general elections in 1951-1952 played out, the Congress led by Nehru fiercely targeted two leaders. For the fledgling Jana Sangh and Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Nehru came out in open abuse, vowing to ‘crush Jana Sangh.’ For Dr Ambedkar and the Scheduled Caste Federation, …

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 …