National Icons
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By arresting Kalicharan for ‘insulting Gandhi’, we encourage the uncritical veneration of our icons
Idolising ‘national’ figures fosters authoritarianism.
Sanjay Srivastava
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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