इतिहास
December 7, 2016
…अयोध्या आंदोलन के नेताओं के लिए न्यायपालिका नौटंकी कंपनी थी, उनका नारा था “बंद करो यह न्याय का नाटक जन्मभूमि का खोलो फाटक”. बाद में साबित हुआ कि उनकी आस्था भी सत्ता पाने के मंचित की गई नौटंकी थी जिसमें बच्चा बच्चा राम का मंत्र और शंख फूंकने, श्राप देने वाले, बाबर की औलादों को पाकिस्तान भेजने वाले धर्माचार्य-साधु- साध्वियां कलाकार थे, जिसमें जितना अभिनय था वह उतना पद,...
December 7, 2016
Professor Prabhat Patnaik's short piece on Javeed Alam.
For people of my generation, Javeed Alam had become a legend in the 1970s. His marriage to Jayanti, following their Sapru House romance,had been seized by the Jan Sangh (as it then was called) to whip up a smirch campaign all over Delhi about how a Muslim youth had abducted a Hindu girl. Posters had suddenly appeared everywhere asking...
December 6, 2016
First Published on: December 14, 2015
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वो एक दोपहर थी, जब अचानक शाम का अख़बार दोपहर में छप कर आ गया था, टीवी सेट्स के आगे आस-पास के घरों के लोग भी आ कर जुटने लगे थे और बूढ़े अपने ट्रांजिस्टर ट्यून करने लगे थे।
अचानक तेज़ शोर सुनाई दिया, छतों पर लोग आ गए थे और प्रभातफेरी की टोली, जो कि पिछले 3 साल से हर रोज़ सुबह ‘जय श्री राम’ गाते हुए घर पर आती...
December 1, 2016
टाइम पत्रिका ने 100 सबसे प्रभावशाली तस्वीरों के अपने संकलन में चरखा के साथ महात्मा गांधी की वर्ष 1946 की एक तस्वीर को शामिल किया है।
महात्मा गांधी की इस श्वेत-श्याम तस्वीर फोटोग्राफर मार्गरेट बौर्के-व्हाइट ने ली थी। तस्वीर में गांधी भूमि पर पतले गद्दे पर बैठकर खबर पढ़ते हुये नजर आ रहे हैं जबकि उनके आगे उनका चरखा रखा है।
तस्वीर भारत के नेताओं पर एक लेख के लिए ली गई थी लेकिन इसके...
November 26, 2016
Today at the stroke of the midnight hour, thanks to the collective efforts of the Sabrangindia Team and the never dying support of friends, comrades all, Sabrangindia turns one. November 26, Constitution Day. This was a re incarnation of Communalism Combat, a print magazine born out of the fires of hatred, and our commitment to real, meaningful journalism alive between 1983...
November 21, 2016
The major gamble the Delhi sultan took with the currency in his kingdom led to the weakening of his sultanate.
Since November 8, a crowd in rural Madhya Pradesh has looted a ration shop, people in long lines at banks and Automated Teller Machines in Delhi and elsewhere have broken into fisticuffs, parents do not have enough money to feed their children, patients cannot pay for their...
November 14, 2016
On November 14, 2016, Pandit Nehru’s Birth Anniversary, the Indian National Congress re-launched the National Herald under the stewardship of Neelabh Mishra, erstwhile editor of the Hindi Outlook. Mishra had been asked to leave Outlook after a series of shake-ups in the publication, widely believed in the journalist world, to be under executive pressure. Editor of the English edition of the...
November 11, 2016
Today, November 11 is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Maulana Azad. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was 70 years when he passed away on February 22, 1958.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress, in 1923 and again in 1940. This excerpt from his historic address made at...
November 10, 2016
Today, medieval India is seen as a place of eternal religious conflict. But that view is more due to modern-day politics than the actual events of history.
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In 1940, as Mahomed Ali Jinnah laid out his vision of the Two Nation Theory in Lahore, he argued that Hindus and Muslims in the subcontinent have separate pasts. “It is quite clear,” said the soon-to-...
November 10, 2016
The new nativism thrives off the failures of neoliberalism. We have entered a dangerous era of anti-liberalism.
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A few thoughts on the causes and consequences of Trump’s victory:
- Bill Clinton’s legacy may have cost Hillary the election. It’s now clear that NAFTA, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to regulate banking, and the...