by kartik lokhande as the nation gears up for the ‘har ghar tiranga’ initiative, wherein the government has appealed to the people to hoist the national flag at their homes on august 15 and share the pictures on social media,
Revisiting the Vaccination Debate in Sabarmati Ashram Through Mahadevbhai Desaiâs Diaries
While Gandhi said he would not come in the way of anyone taking the smallpox vaccine, he also said he could not change his beliefs and encourage it.
Mahadevbhai Desai with Gandhi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
History03/Apr/2021
The conversations around COVID-19 vaccinations often heard these days â whether to take the vaccination or not, how effective it is, the suspension of the vaccination programme in some countries due to fear of the side effects â reminds me of an incident at Mahatma Gandhiâs Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, as recorded by Mahadevbhai Desai in his diary.
Mulshi Satyagraha: Remembering Indiaâs First Anti-Dam Struggle in its 100th Year
Ousted without rehabilitation in 1921 and jailed for resisting, the families of the 52 villages in Maharashtraâs Mulshi taluka who lost their land to the Tata Power dam face ever-growing troubles even today.
The villages scattered around the Mulshi Reservoir, owned by the Tata company. Photo: Nandini Oza
Rights05/Feb/2021
The first anti-dam struggle in India and possibly even the world was against the Mulshi dam, built at the confluence of the Mula and Nila rivers near Pune in western Maharashtra.
Popularly known as the Mulshi
satyagraha (insistence on truth), this struggle was led by Pandurang Mahadev (Senapati) Bapat and V.M. Bhuskute in the early 1920s, spreading across not only the 52 submergence villages of the dam, but even outside, right up to Pune and beyond. What is important about this struggle a hundred years ago is that even women participated in large numbers  and were ja