In the last ten years, Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s has made more than one high-profile State visit to South Africa. His public addresses there in Durban focused primarily on Mahatma Gandhi, with ceremonial visits, of course, made to places like Durban associated with Gandhi’s life and message. There is extensive media coverage and official documentationContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-18): Ignored by New Delhi, short-shrifted in Durban, forgotten in Mylapore,…”
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The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-17): A streak of “raashtravaadi”? …
Srinivasa Sastri, in so far as we have studied him in the foregoing pages, was a man who never could be stereotyped as either this or that type of votary of any particular political ideology or as anyone who could be easily swayed by any extreme notions of Nationalism, Patriotism or Liberalism. And nor wasContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-17): A streak of “raashtravaadi”? …”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-13): …Lecture#15 of “Lectures on the Ramayana” – 2025 Independence Day special…
In Mylapore, Madras, on July 19th, 1944, Rt. Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri delivered the fifteenth in his series of thirty sterling “Lectures on the Ramayana” Profoundly insightful observations were made in the course of the passionate speech upon a very wide range of matters, political and philosophical viz.: Patriotism, Treason, Nationalist pride, Democracy, Political Dissent, PoliticalContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-13): …Lecture#15 of “Lectures on the Ramayana” – 2025 Independence Day special…”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-12): …Lecture #15 of the “Lectures on the Ramayana”…
Sastri felt politically marginalized by the rise of Gandhi and Nehru’s mass movements. He expressed melancholy and resignation about the eclipse of moderate liberalism. ‘I am a clod of miserable earth, which nothing can galvanise. Let me be’”, he had written to a friend. His personal relation with Gandhi was respectful and affectionate despite politicalContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-12): …Lecture #15 of the “Lectures on the Ramayana”…”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-9): ….The years in political wilderness ….
It would not be inaccurate to say that between roughly 1933 and his death in 1946, Rt. Hon’ble V. S. Srinivasa Sastri was in relative political wilderness compared to his earlier prominence. By the mid-1930s, Sastri had distanced himself from the more militant and mass-based nationalist politics led by the Indian National Congress under GandhiContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-9): ….The years in political wilderness ….”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-4)
By the time Srinivasa Sastri returned in 1929 to India after successfully completing the diplomatic task in South Africa that had been assigned to him by the British Government of India and by Mahatma Gandhi as well, his intellectual and political stature had grown and he became renowned amongst both the Colonial Administrations of GreatContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-4)”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?
The Sastri College in Durban, South Africa is a co-educational, multi-racial, multi-cultural state secondary school with learners from grade 8 to grade 12. The founding of Sastri College was the vision of the (Late) Rt. Hon’ble V.S Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946 CE). The official opening of the school took place on Monday, 14th October, 1929 whenContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?”
The Pahalgam Tragedy
What holds back India from belligerent retaliation is the irresolvable question of legitimacy of its sovereignty over Kashmir in the eyes of the world. It gets raked up all the time when either a conflagration like Kargil or a tragedy like Pahalgam happens. How to permanently establish such legitimacy? I’m going to suggest here aContinue reading “The Pahalgam Tragedy”
I can mourn my country’s History but I can’t ever redress it …
One of the most thought-provoking Op-Eds I’ve read in a long , long time ! The history lessons that I was always made to learn back when I was in school and university spoke glowingly about 2 magnificent achievements of the Indian National Congress Party soon after Independence : 1. The “reunification 500 of PrincelyContinue reading “I can mourn my country’s History but I can’t ever redress it …”
The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded
“THE TECHNICIANS” (or rather the TECHNOCRACY) “There is not much to be expected from the third group of Anglicized Hindus, and therefore there is not also much to be said…” … that’s how dismissively if not disparagingly does Nirad Chaudhury write about Technicians (or technocracy) of India in his 1965 book, “The Continent of Circe“.Continue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded”