Rajmohan Gandhi

Born in 1935, Rajmohan Gandhi has been writing on democracy and human rights from 1964, when with a few friends he started a weekly called HIMMAT in Mumbai. This We Are One Humanity website is his brainchild.

Over the years Rajmohan has been a journalist, a professor teaching history and politics in the U.S. and in India, an author of biographies and histories, and a member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s parliament).

His articles here were mostly written for the website himmat.net, which Rajmohan had started in 2017, and which has been replaced by this website. 

Black and white portrait of an elderly man with glasses, short gray hair, and a thoughtful expression, resting his hand on his face against a plain dark background.
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Targeting Art

An assault on personal freedoms is now in full swing in India.

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Turkey and Iran

Conversations have to start somewhere, across some divide.

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Test for Assam

Any attempt to forcibly deport would be a regional and global bombshell. 

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Strategic step

To find a strategy we don’t have to look far. Encouraging the person next to us may be the first step.

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Transient triumphs

History reveals that popularity of authoritarian leaders and majoritarian agendas is a transitory phenomenon.

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Giving up on a statesman

Official India’s decision to distance itself from the Dalai Lama, and its apparent keenness to underscore the dissociation, speak of our fallen times.

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