24 results for 'gandhi'

24 results for 'gandhi'

    Sons of the Same Soil: Why Gandhi is Still Relevant Today(Post)

    Today in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated. His vision is still urgent, for South Asia and for the whole world. “Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives.” So began Prime Minister&nb ...

    Do or Die: Mahatma Gandhi and the Quit India movement(Post)

    Today, in 1942, Gandhi mobilised the movement for independence with his 'Do or Die' speech. By the 1940s, India had been kept in the waiting room of history for a hundred years. Ever since the ...

    Jawaharlal Nehru: Another Kind of Strongman(Post)

    Jawaharlal Nehru sought first to free India, and then to ensure its independent voice on the world stage "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and ...

    Divide & Rule: The Brutality of the British Empire (Post)

    One of the favourite lies told by Britain's imperial apologists is that the decolonisation of the British Empire was 'bloodless'. If they were to tell that to the people of the Indian sub-con ...

    The Radicals who Chose Isolation (Post)

    Our radical past is home to many characters who have actively chosen an isolated way of life… It’s hard to imagine right now, but plenty of people have happily opted for isolation over the ce ...

    Relentless Struggle: The Life and Work of B.R. Ambedkar(Post)

    The struggle for Indian independence was about more than just Gandhi “Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…” Bhimrao Ramji Am ...

    The Radical History of Tea (Post)

    It's International Tea Day! Obviously we're going to talk about the Radical History of Tea. More and more histories are being written about food. A Tall History of Sugar (Curdella For ...

    10 Speeches Every Radical Should Know(Post)

    The power of a speech is very often overlooked. Indeed, rhetorical skill and oratorical eloquence are often seen as instruments of deception rather than sources of inspiration. And yet, there is ...

    Masters in Our Own House: The Story of the Bandung Conference(Post)

    In 1955, representatives from across Africa and Asia gathered in Bandung to articulate a vision of world peace and cooperation “Our nations and countries are colonies no more. Now we are free ...

    Rise Like Lions: The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley(Post)

    The poet whose words inspired Marx, Gandhi, Thoreau and countless others... Percy Bysshe Shelley died on this day in 1822. He wasn’t yet thirty years old, but since his death Shelley h ...

    Keeping the Faith: Christian Socialism in the 20th Century(Post)

    "Informed opposition to apartheid... owes as much to John Collins and Christian Action as informed opposition to the slave trade owed to Wilberforce." - Archbishop Trevor HuddlestonJohn Collins (cent ...

    Annie Besant: Socialist, Suffragist, Anti-colonialist(Post)

    Born on this day in 1847, Annie Besant backed every radical cause going in the late 19th century In December 1917, an Anglo-Irish woman from London briefly became President of the Indian Nati ...