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).
I am glad to be able to offer here a review of Peter Shambrook’s Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939, which was brought out in London last
Published simultaneously in multiple cities in South India, the New Indian Express carries in its edition of August 15, India’s independence day, an article by me which I take
The performance of the newly installed Modi-led coalition government in the Indian parliament on the morning of Wednesday June 26 is worth looking at. Not for any ominous intervention
South Africa, too, emerging like India from crucial national elections, faces major questions, as do other lands. However, let me stay with India in this piece, and along with millions
Thousands of miles separate me from India as I type these lines, but a most amazing possibility is swallowing my sleep. The possibility is that the people of India may
“No real buzz for BJP in western UP” is Indian Express’s headline (Apr 15) for Neerja Chowdhury’s column written after the seasoned journalist talked with voters in an
With the U.S. veto held back at last, the U.N. Security Council, responding to a mounting global cry, finally demanded “an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. True, the council’
Whether Indian or not, cherishers of democracy should know of at least some troubling recent happenings in India.
On February 16, a French journalist who has worked in India for
Let me summarize some of the concerns harboured (or where possible voiced) by Indians as the Indian state took a prominent part in the inauguration on January 22 of an
In an email to me, a keen Western scholar of eastern religions raises some important questions. Saying, “It seems to me that diversity, plurality and even relativism are hard-wired
