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The decision to confer Gandhi Peace Prize on Gita Press is a matter of great satisfaction.  The recognition, although long delayed, acknowledges the

He stood with ordinary Indians in the grave crisis, while Congress dithered.

Remembering India’s First Modern Sculptor, Ramkinkar Baij He broke free from the stultifying conformism of colonial and pre-modern studio sculpturing to encompass in his work the lives and struggles of plain, unremarkable human beings. Ramkinkar Baij: (May 25, 1906 – August 2, 1980) Credit: Twitter My memories of Ramkinkar Baij, such as they are, are interlaced with two things that one rarely associates with an artist. The first, curiously, is kerosene. And the second, somewhat less oddly, is summer, or rather, a hot summer day. One afternoon in the middle of April, in 1973, my frie...

‘Black Spartacus’: A biography of the man who may have been the first great anti-colonialist leader Sudhir Hazareesingh’s book examines the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, who brought revolution to Haiti and inspired the world. Two portraits of Toussaint L’ouverture | Public domain / Wikimedia commons “The name of Toussaint L’Ouverture is all but unknown in India,” remarked Ramananda Chatterjee, the editor of the Calcutta-based Modern Review, in April 1908. “Lives such as his,” nevertheless, “may inspire us with self-confidence.” Chatterjee, whose M...