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Subhas Chandra Bose

President, PM pay homage to Subhas Chandra Bose

On the occasion of Netaji’s birth anniversary, PM Modi, through a tweete, recalled “his unparalleled contribution to India’s history”. He wrote he was deeply influenced by his thoughts and working to realise his vision for India.

Beyond Tributes~II

The forward march of Netaji’s liberation army unnerved and unsettled the British rulers in India decisively.

Raising a toast to Ian Jack

At our last meeting, a pleasantly rambling conversation at a café on Highbury Corner, Ian Jack and I had started talking about family histories and writing about them.

Corona & Spirituality

An ordinary man may weep in despair. A saint and ascetic may well muse ruefully with abject surrender that all is Divine Play. Let us board the Noah's Ark of namosmaranam to tide over this frightful flood of pandemic disaster.

Roller-Coaster Socialism~II

Subhas Chandra Bose sought to provide an authoritarian character to the state but his objective was to combine a people's state with a strong centralized state. He wanted to promote collective affiliation of workers' and peasants' organisations so that the state could act as the servant of the people. Like the Marxists of China and unlike the Soviet Marxists, Subhas sought to trace the roots of Indian socialism to the tradition and culture of India.