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After the British, the Gandhis: The great loot of India continues


After the British, the Gandhis: The great loot of India continues

I often wonder who has looted India more – The British before Independence or our politicians (mostly the Congress / Nehru-Gandhi family) after independence. The …


Ghadar revolutionaries were nationalists, not Marxists or anarchists


Ghadar revolutionaries were nationalists, not Marxists or anarchists

By 1910 and 1911 revolutionaries associated with the Jugantar group had fanned out internationally and had begun organising Indian diasporic …


Marxist intellectuals appropriate pre-Gandhian freedom fighters


Marxist intellectuals appropriate pre-Gandhian freedom fighters

April 2013 announces the centenary of the Ghadar Party – one of the most riveting symbols of Indian defiance against …


Recalling the Jallianwala Bagh massacre


Recalling the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Today, April 13th, is the anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre during the British Raj in Amritsar in 1919. It …



Jammu & Kashmir’s accession to India is complete and Constitutional


Jammu & Kashmir’s accession to India is complete and Constitutional

The partition of the Indian subcontinent should be seen in the perspective of the Anglo-Muslim alliance that was forged by…

Buildings don’t matter, intentions Do


Buildings don’t matter, intentions Do

My alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, is an extraordinary place.…


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