Yesterday was 30th January, the day Mahatma Gandhi died. At least this day should have belonged to him. But no! Throughout the day you saw social media swamped with references not just to his detractors but worse, to his murderer Nathuram Godse. Things were simpler in the past. As a child growing up in the 70s and

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The ‘Non-Policing’ efforts by Gadchiroli Police The Police Dada’s Window: One stop to Accessing Government Schemes Taking government-run schemes to the doorsteps of the people has far more urgency in Gadchiroli than in any other district of Maharashtra. In this district which is scarred by Maoist violence, the state has consistently tried to win over the

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(Source: internet) Communal Riots in the City  In November 2021, the city of Amravati was shaken by intense violence spread over two days. On 12th November the Muslim community had gathered in large numbers to protest the destruction of mosques in Tripura. The estimate of the numbers ranges from fifteen thousand to forty thousand. Apart from Muslims from Amravati city, there

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राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज वर्ष २००० मध्ये मी चंद्रपूर जिल्ह्यात नवीनच होते आणि रोज नवीन गोष्टी शिकत होते. ग्रामस्थांना संध्याकाळी वेळ असायचा त्यामुळे श्रमिक एल्गारच्या बैठका संध्याकाळी उशीरा सुरु व्हायच्या आणि रात्रीच्या जेवणाच्या वेळी संपायच्या. एकदा चिटकीला मोठी बैठक होती आणि जवळपासच्या गावातील ग्रामस्थही आले होते. रात्रीच्या जेवणानंतर मला असे दिसले की ग्रामस्थ एका शेकोटीभोवती जमा

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These two poems written by Pramodkumar Anerao were translated from Marathi by Paromita Goswami. Both are included in his anthology Kahi Sangtach Yet Nahi (2021). Pramodkumar Anerao writes on contemporary themes of alienation and uncertainties of modern life. He is also an avid illustrator and has designed several book covers. He contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines.

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                                  Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj In 2000 I was still new to Chandrapur district and learning new things every day. Since villagers would be free in the evenings, the meetings of Shramik Elgar would start late and end at dinner

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Victim of Forest Department Torture Torture, Blackmail and False Cases The first time an incident occurs, it can be deemed an accident; the second time can be seen as a coincidence; the third time establishes a pattern and the fourth time shows premeditation! Three separate incidents of torture by the Chandrapur forest department in the

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    We live in the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would say. For, we live in times of polarisation — where no relation is immune to a deep left-right divide; where people are labelled casually as if they are assembly-line products of a modern factory — in which there

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    Many years ago, I read the great Hindi poet Maithilisharan Gupta’s poem ‘Sakhi, ve mujh se kahkar jate’ that expressed the grief of Queen Yashodhara, the wife of Prince Siddhartha.  That poem transports us two thousand five hundred years ago to the fateful morning when Yashodhara wakes up find her husband has left

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The right wing has developed a two-pronged strategy to deal with the ghosts of Nehru and Gandhi. The political arm of the right wing, represented primarily by the BJP, attacks Nehru because they have to battle the legacy of Nehru the Prime Minister, the builder of institutions, the diplomat, and the staunch upholder of secular

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