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Playing with fire

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is an idiom that summarises Pakistan’s consistent tryst with religiosity.

The reformer as a healer

Remembering Vidyasagar’s health care service for the Santal people of Karmatar, a little known village in the Jamtara Sadar Subdivision of present day Jharkhand state, may be a fitting tribute to him on his 204th birth anniversary.

Periyar and Gandhi~I

Periyar was initially an enthusiastic supporter of Gandhi from the very inception of the Non-Cooperation Movement as he was aware of the narrow social base of the Congress and the dominance of lawyers within it before Gandhi took charge. The advent of Gandhi was significantly transformative as his political and social activities were such that everyone could participate and his principles could ‘be understood by all‘. The atavistic orientation of Gandhian principles like khadi, prohibition and abolition of untouchability were refreshingly new and novel