National Icons

How anti-colonial revolutionary ES Reddy dedicated his life to ending Apartheid in South Africa

As a member of a UN special committee, the Indian diplomat persevered alongside contemporaries in the liberatory struggles of a post-colonial world.

Archishman Raju
· Jul 30, 2024 · 11:30 am
By arresting Kalicharan for ‘insulting Gandhi’, we encourage the uncritical veneration of our icons

Idolising ‘national’ figures fosters authoritarianism.

Sanjay Srivastava
· Jan 03, 2022 · 07:30 am
Why everybody wants to appropriate Ambedkar: 'He cannot be monopolised any more than he can be marginalised'

'It is important that no section of India confines him and, equally, that none refrains from engaging with his open intellect'.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi
· Apr 17, 2015 · 02:41 pm