It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.
In the early morning of 6 April 1930, on the quiet shores of the Arabian Sea at Dandi in Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi bent down, picked up a handful of salt, and quietly defied the law of the British Empire.
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi stepped out of Sabarmati Ashram with a small group of followers and a simple but radical plan: to challenge British authority over something as basic as salt.
He emphasized that both Mahatma Gandhi and Sree Narayana Guru lacked physical or financial strength but possessed immense, lasting power due to their spiritual strength and commitment to truth.
On 17 February, the world lost one of its most resonant voices for equality - Reverend Je sse L . Jackson, Sr., who passed away at the age of 84.
Several commentators and opposition leaders have sought to trivialize the reform undertaken for the rural employment guarantee scheme as a mere attempt to change the name and dispense with Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the title.
The Opposition parties, led by the Congress, vehemently opposed the VB-G RAM G bill that seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme.
The protest was held during the single-day special session of the Assembly convened on the occasion of completion of 70 years of the Legislative Assembly’s first session.
Haryana Congress President Rao Narendra Singh has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, holding its “petty and narrow mindset” responsible and raising a pointed question: “Do you now have a problem even with Bapu?”
On 26 November, India celebrated Constitution Day, a day to commemorate the adoption of its foundational legal document in 1949.
