Tag: Biography
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Episode 12: Spies, Lies and Allies: The Extraordinary Lives of Chatto and Roy
While India’s freedom struggle is often remembered for its nonviolent approach, remarkable individuals like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Sukhdev, and Rajguru actively pursued revolutionary methods, conducting rebellious activities within India. Meanwhile, others ventured abroad, forging alliances, securing funds and weapons for Indian revolutionaries, assassinating British officials in London, conspiring against…
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Episode 7: The Multiple Careers of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Nico Slate begins his book ‘Coloured Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India‘ with the following paragraph: In the spring of 1941, in the midst of the Second World War, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya sat down in the “whites only” section of a segregated train traveling through the American South. Just across…
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Ranajit Guha: A Tribute
Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria. Indisputably, he was the greatest historian of the past century, and his passing away is an intimate loss to the field of social sciences. Guha was born on 23rd May 1922, in Siddhakati village of Bakarganj district, now in Bangladesh. He was…
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TISC Student Column: Shyamaji Krishnavarma and The Indian Sociologist
Shyamaji and his journal can open doors to new avenues in Sociology. It is high time we give Shyamaji his due place in Indian Sociology and History To read full article, click: TISC Student Column: Shyamaji Krishnavarma and The Indian Sociologist or read below George Graham Vest, former US Senator from Missouri, was largely remembered…
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Lalan Fakir: His Songs and Philosophy by Mucheli Rishvanth Reddy
For the times we live in, Lalan’s legacy and his songs are rays of hope. Lalan’s songs are great tools to construct cultural history, no doubt. But his songs can also be sung when reason loses its way in our conversations and actions. Instead of arguing over good and bad in our religions and castes,…
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A SHORT NOTE MAHATMA GANDHI’S CHILDHOOD AND LIFE IN ENGLAND
“All those who came in contact with him including those who were ranged against him perceived that there was something unique about Gandhi” (Varma, 2000). What is it that is unique about Bapu? I believe it is his continuous experiments in his life where he moved from inconsistencies towards perfection by being truthful to himself…
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Gandhi And Kumarappa: A Gandhian Paradigm for Development
In his essay Three Disciples, B R Nanda wrote, “It would have been difficult to think of a more unlikely candidate for the discipleship of Gandhi in 1929 than J.C. Kumarappa” (Nanda, 2002). Looking at the phase of his life before meeting Gandhi shows that this proposition is beyond question. Joseph Chellandurai Kumarappa’s age was 37…
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