Seventy five years after his killing, Gandhi’s image is under scrutiny, but the Indian government likes to use it for political gain.
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A scholar on South Asian affairs traces the growth of Hindu nationalism, started by an atheist anti-colonial revolutionary, to the one adopted under Modi’s government.
After an Indian politician disparaged a woman for her lack of morals because she was wearing ripped jeans, an online protest erupted, reviving the original protest-culture of the ripped jean.
The term was first used in 1917 for a political agitation that Mahatma Gandhi launched against the British, on behalf of farmers.
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor.
Although Gandhi is best known for expelling the British from India and inspiring the likes of King and Mandela, he also wrote a lot about the behavior of good business leaders.
A hundred years ago, peaceful Indian protesters were massacred under British colonial rule. A scholar argues why a formal apology is overdue.
India’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new’ India.
Gandhi was celebrated for the things he taught the world in his later years, through his writings, ideas and lifestyle. He was celebrated for seeking peace for all the peoples of the world.
The ideas of Mahatma Gandhi are currently enjoying a resurgence – but is this a consequence of our post-truth age or of something deeper?
For Gandhi, whose birth anniversary is Monday, Oct. 2, nonviolent resistance meant placing one’s own body in harm’s way to expose social injustices, which made it a powerful political tool.
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who hurriedly drew the new borders in secret, was largely responsible.
At midnight on August 15, 1947, India achieved freedom from more than two centuries of colonial rule. Hours earlier, Pakistan was declared a new nation. Was partition inevitable?
As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India’s independence quickly ran into trouble.
Vigilante Hindu groups in India have lynched several people for eating beef. A scholar traces the history of beef-eating in ancient India.
Australia is a place that prides itself on the fair go. And yet, all is clearly not well.
We are living in a world war fought piecemeal. It is everyone’s responsibility to fight for peace.
Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most influential personalities in history, celebrated for his advocacy of non-violent resistance. But his dark side is now receiving increased attention.
California now allows terminally ill people to end their lives. In the 2,800-year-old Jain tradition, individuals can choose to fast unto death, when it makes no sense to prolong suffering.
Despite progress in lifting people above poverty lines around the world, the picture is bleaker for people at the very bottom of the ladder. They have largely missed out on the gains of recent decades.
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics and inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics, Georgetown University
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Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Postdoc, Harvard Kennedy School | Associate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Lecturer in Religion and Peacebuilding, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University
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Professor and Department Head, Department of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
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Honorary Professor of Social Science, University of Wollongong; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University
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Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago
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Professor of History, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Professor of Religion, University of Florida
