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Bhagat Singh

Remembering a revolutionary

Whether Gandhi tried to persuade the then Viceroy Lord Irwin with full sincerity of purpose to commute the death sentence is a matter of debate till today, but what is not so debated is the fact that in our history textbooks the role of armed revolutionaries in the freedom struggle is not given due recognition.

Saffronising Valluvar

The BJP’s bid to appropriate and saffronise the secular universalist poet as a Hundutva icon has led to desecration of a Valluvar statue at Pillaiyarpatti in Thanjavur last week.