FOR SOMEONE RENOWNED FOR HIS crisp and brief speeches, Mahatma Gandhi was destined to make one of his relatively long speeches, by his standards of course, at the Sivagiri Mutt in Varkala, which was then home to Sree Narayana Guru, one of Kerala’s foremost social reformers, on March 13th, 1925. Guru, a life-long proponent of … Continue reading On the 1925 Dialogue Between Mahatma Gandhi and Sree Narayana Guru
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The Cultural Campaign of RSS: War Over the Mind of India
Even as RSS tries to add new icons to its intellectual history, it wants to redeem scholars denigrated by the leftist establishment. Last year, on September 16th, the RSS and BJP in Kerala referred to the great social reformer Sree Narayana Guru (1856-1928) as a ‘Hindu saint’, setting off a slugfest between Leftists and the … Continue reading The Cultural Campaign of RSS: War Over the Mind of India
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