I was invited to speak at a seminar in Chhattisgarh on Bapu’s Hind Swaraj, its relevance today. It was ironic because, while we discussed the relevance of what Bapu had written more than a century ago, the dangers he had cautioned against and the pitfalls he had enumerated in his seminal work were manifest all across Chattisgarh, like in much of modern India.

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The headline on Colombia’s major newspaper, El Tiempo, the day after Hugo Chávez’s death was “The End of the Chávez Era”.
True, Chávez’s controversial and colourful 14-year rule has ended,

The headline on Colombia’s major newspaper, El Tiempo, the day after Hugo Chávez’s death was “The End of the Chávez Era”.
True, Chávez’s controversial and colourful 14-year rule has ended,

The headline on Colombia’s major newspaper, El Tiempo, the day after Hugo Chávez’s death was “The End of the Chávez Era”.
True, Chávez’s controversial and colourful 14-year rule has ended,