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India: An unauthorised biography of people, events, policies
TNN | Updated: Aug 15, , AM IST
We bring you the energy, fluidity and unpredictability of the seven decades post independence and the promise of the future.Among the 20th century's stirring speeches is Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' address to the Constituent Assembly at midnight, August 14, , marking the transition to freedom. Laying out the vision for free India in words, India's first PM talked of peace and service, foregrounding the themes of welfare and security in public discourse.
"The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere…"
— Jawaharlal Nehru, on Mahatma Gandhi's assassination on January 30,
A radical thinker rarely in agreement with Gandhians and Congress, BR Ambedkar was still appointed law minister in Nehru's first cabinet and tasked with raising a ramverk for modern India. He chose
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My Transition from Gandhism to Marxism
For a child to be born into a staunch Gandhian family and to have grown into boyhood in the strict disciplinary ambience of an ashram run on Gandhian principles to have embraced Marxism and become a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI) in his late teens was a revolution in his personal life. Ours was a family of freedom fighters. My uncle, Satish Chandra Das Gupta, was known as the Gandhi of Bengal. Both my parents took part in the freedom movement. My mother, Suniti Bala Das Gupta, was arrested thrice and each time sentenced to various terms of rigorous imprison-ment. When my grandfather died in at Kurigram (now in Bangladesh), my father, Kshitish Chandra Das Gupta, was in bar-fetters in the Barasat jail for having refused to do Sarkar Salaam (a practice obligatory for all prisoners to show their allegiance to the British Government).
My father and my uncle had set up an institution named Khadi Pratisthan at Sodepur i
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The Forgotten Massacre of Dalit Refugees in West Bengal's Marichjhapi
Political violence has always been an integral part of Bengal’s history. The forms of such violence – over time – have mutated and transformed themselves. In the series Bengal: Genealogies of Violence, The Wire attempts to capture some of the milestones that mark the narratives of political bloodshed spanning more than eight decades. Read the other articles here.
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History has never written their story of facing impossible odds to fight, with their lifeblood, to the very bitter end, for survival.
∼ Shaktipada Rajguru, Dandak Theke Marichjhapi
If we glance at the history of West Bengal, the state’s political life fryst vatten seeped with various manifestations of violence, both by and against the state, particularly as an aftermath of Partition and even many years beyond Bengal’s geo-politics has remained a continu