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"Words are the mask, actions the revealing face": For Kasturba, Gandhi prescribed faith over penicillin, Yet, when it came to Manu or self, modern surgeries weren't off the table. Ah, the enigmatic dance of traditional vs. modern in Gandhi's world!
Gandhi's desire for Kasturba to be nourished only with water and honey is detailed, along with the intense debates between Devadas and his father
| Satyaagrah | Mahatma Gandhi
"Each betrayal begins with trust": "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram" that was atrociously distorted by Gandhi into a fake pseudo secular anthem was actually inspired from "Nama Ramayanam", a short Ramayana composed by Sri Lakshmanacharya
Gandhi's readiness to warp the lyrics of a Hindu religious hymn to assuage Muslim apprehensions is a striking illustration of this one-sided dynamic
| Satyaagrah | Mahatma Gandhi
"One may reject the claims of sainthood made on Gandhi's behalf… and therefore feel that his basic aims were anti-human and reactionary", George Orwell’s Devastating Critique in his article 'Reflections on Gandhi'
Excerpts from the iconic George Orwell's incisive critique of Mohandas Gandhi, his methods and his legacy reveal several unflattering truths about the Mahatma
| Satyaagrah | Opinion
During Partition Hindu and Sikh refugees concentrated in Delhi to a humiliating and dehumanizing experience whereas Muslim were being provided with rations, funds, jobs and shelter: MK Pahwa try to assassinate Gandhi
And wonder of wonders, instead of assisting Hindu and Sikh refugees, the Congress government deployed police violence, thrashing and beating down to bar them from “offending Muslim sensibilities” while Hindus and Sikhs by the millions suffered unprecedented genocide and slaughter
| Satyaagrah | History
The perpetrator of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre General Reginald Dyer was forgiven by Mohandas Gandhi as an exercise of forgiveness or love to nurse Dyer back to life if he was suffering from a physical malady
Mahatma Gandhi’s writings reveal how he found it was morally right to forgive Dyer for the heinous crimes he committed in Amritsar by killing innocent and unarmed people
| Satyaagrah | History
‘Bapu tum vapas aa jao bapu, boo hoo hoo’: Gandhi Jayanti is incomplete without these videos of SP leaders with extravagant tear fest, brings back memories of Congress leaders doing the same
Bapu....Bapu..." wailed the SP party leader as his sidekick in a white kurta consoled him. Even though Ghalib Khan's tears are not apparent to ordinary eyes, he kept wiping them away as he remembered Bapu
| Satyaagrah | Viral
The first large-scale massacre in Independent India accounts for one of the biggest coverups in modern history: It is about time we talk about the 1948 genocide of Maharashtrian Brahmins following MK Gandhi’s assassination
The episode of violence against Brahmins in Maharashtra was the first blot on the legacy of Mohandas Gandhi as an upholder of peace and non-violence
| Satyaagrah | Hindu Genocide
Harmonizing Nathuram Godse: Why India should move beyond denouncing him, a man who altered the course of not only the politics of the country but the very history of the Hindu Civilisation and, by extension, the world at large
The author is of the conviction that the one sided narrative that has dominated the discourse surrounding him is motivated by political objectives only and does not do justice to the actual complexity of the nature of the events that transpired
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Debunking the myth of "De Di humein Aazadi Bina Khadag Bina Dhal": Bharat’s founding story bestows upon it an extravagant national philosophy and long-lasting costs
The British had dominated Bharat through a Machiavellian divide-and-rule strategy. Their exit came only after they had reduced one of the world’s wealthiest economies to one of its poorest
| Satyaagrah | History
British author Tunku Varadarajan tried to tarnish the image of iconic freedom fighter Netaji with reference to Hitler: Sinister agenda to malign the legacy of Netaji from calling him a ‘flawed hero’ to a ‘Nazi sympathiser’
Netaji's commitment to his nation's Independence was supreme, and the brief association with Hitler should not be inferred as his support to the Jewish pogrom
| Satyaagrah | Anti-National
Mohandas Gandhi's dearest Christian hymn ‘Abide by Me' which was played every year since 1950 has been dropped for Beating Retreat Ceremony again: Republic Day 2022
The hymn had been played every year during the Beating Retreat Ceremony since 1950 but was dropped in the year 2020. However, it was reinstated in the year 2021 after its exclusion created a huge outcry
| Satyaagrah | News
Netaji, an Impossible man can never be boxed into an ideological corner: Not just the most enigmatic figure in world history but his life is also a tough lesson in how to think about history
It is perhaps fitting that Netaji’s death remains a mystery. For no definitive death could have done justice to the life that he lived. That of the impossible man
| Satyaagrah | Subhas Chandra Bose
If only India’s partition chilling wound was not enough, Gandhi did his last protest again only to blackmail India into giving 55 crores to Pakistan, dragged Hindu, Sikh refugees seeking shelter in mosques to die in cold: And we call him Mahatma, not for
Industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla had also tried to explain to Gandhi that the consequences of transferring money to Pakistan would not be good because belligerent Pakistan will use that money to buy weapons against India. But Gandhi did not budge
| Satyaagrah | History
'Muh me ram bagal me chhuri' - Gandhi’s politics is hollow and noisy, full of treachery and deceit’: Read what Dr. Ambedkar said about the ‘Mahatma’
The politics of Gandhi is hollow and noisy. It is the most dishonest politics in the history of Indian polity. Gandhi was the man responsible for eliminating morality from politics and instead introduced commercialism in Indian politics
| Satyaagrah | Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was created as 'Mahatma' by British Order in a pre-independence Bharat on 2 Sept 1938 - A 'made to order' Mahatma, a Pied Piper for the Hindus
Gandhi is a European-truly, a Russian Christian in an Indian body. And there are some Indians in European bodies! Gandhi a European. Yes. When the Europeans say that he is more Christian than many Christians they are perfectly right.
| Satyaagrah | Mahatma Gandhi
'Mahatma' or 'Moron': Gandhi’s experiments with celibacy to attain nirvana state by bathing with women and sleeping with naked girls
Gandhi had never hidden his unusual experiments with women, he had disclosed the same to his close associates, many times through letters
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Winning wars but losing the peace: Sri Krishna and Mahatma
Quite clearly, the two chiefs of who headed the Indian army until December 1948, Sir Robert Lockhart and Sir Roy Bucher, were almost certainly in touch with their British counterparts heading the Pakistani forces.
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Bhagat Irwin Gandhi - Martyrdom of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Some Hidden Facts)
If the motive was set aside, said Bhagat Singh, "Jesus Christ will appear to be a man responsible for creating disturbances, breaking peace and preaching revolt and will be considered to be a dangerous personality in the language of the law. But we worship Him"
| Satyaagrah | Bhagat Singh
Hindutvawadi chaku piche se chati pe marega: Rahul Gandhi’s calculated analysis on absolute bullshit
He then cites the Geeta and claims that it is written in the Geeta that one must fight the fight of truth, “Die, get killed, fight the fight for truth. In Geeta, Lord Krishna didn’t tell Arjun to kill his brothers for power. Krishna asked Arjun to kill his brothers for truth.”
| Satyaagrah | Politics
A troubled childhood - Rajguru: The Invincible Revolutionary
The flame of deep hatred against the British had, however, been ignited in his tender heart. He always remembered with bitterness the sight of disdainful and contemptuous look on the face of a British Officer, who was being paid respect by the simple hearted villagers
| Satyaagrah | Rajguru
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