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The Impossible Gandhian Project and its Limits – Remembering the Mahatma Today

Majboori ka naam Mahatma Gandhi (Roughly: Compulsion thy name is Mahatma Gandhi) I have grown up hearing this expression and have often wondered about its meaning and at the almost proverbial status acquired by it. Whose majboori or compulsion was Gandhi really? Well, at one level, everybody’s, for practically every current within the anti-colonial struggle was … Continue reading The Impossible Gandhian Project and its Limits – Remembering the Mahatma Today →