Gandhi s Ideas Against Use of Violence to Achieve Political Objectives Ring True Today
Violence stamps the body politic with its cloven hoof; it reduces isolated acts of resistance to spectacle and diminishes the political public to an audience.
Police personnel have placed iron nails near barricades in an attempt to stop protesting farmers from crossing Tikri border. Photo: PTI
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Another January 30 has come and gone but it is worth underlining why we should remember Gandhi, even ritually, on the anniversary of his assassination.
The answers he gave to questions that confronted India from the second decade of the 20th century were shaped by the historical specificities of his age, that of colonialism. But then, all answers that philosophers give to dilemmas of the human condition are historically specific.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s: Ireland agreed to a US request to search Cuban-bound planes passing through Shannon
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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Volume XII: 1961-1965 recalls a period when a Catholic Irish-American had just been elected to the White House and the biggest foreign policy issue of the day concerned British relations with Europe. Ireland was about to take a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Welcome to 1961. So much for the similarities, there were also lots of differences too from the themes of today. For starters, Britain was desperately trying to
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