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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicGandhi Jayanti

Topic: Gandhi Jayanti

Dissent if it offends your conscience. Gandhi said so

Gandhi believed disobedience is duty when something is repugnant to our conscience. No matter the law.

Mahatma Gandhi in ‘New India’, and Sushma Swaraj’s war on Pakistan

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Health experts want to cast Mahatma Gandhi as India’s new fitness icon

A special edition of the Indian Journal of Medical Research seeks to project Mahatma Gandhi as India's new health icon.

Being Gandhian: How Narendra Modi’s career has been a series of odes to the Mahatma

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has borrowed excessively from Mahatma Gandhi's legacy, if just to corner the Congress.

This leader forced Mahatma Gandhi to change his views on caste

Mahatma Gandhi’s inconsistent stand on caste has been criticised by some leaders.

Mahatma Gandhi hated movies, but watched 2 in his lifetime

Mahatma Gandhi, however, wasn’t opposed to performing arts. He was a lover of good music.

The two family members of Mahatma Gandhi who dared to disagree with him

Maganlal Gandhi’s role is documented in ashram’s history, but Mathuradas’s contribution is locked in out-of-print books in Gujarati.

Dalit outreach for Ambedkar was a success, says Modi govt, wants to do it again for Gandhi

The campaign will be launched to mark Gandhi’s 150 birth anniversary, a politically significant move given key assembly polls later this year and 2019 LS elections.

On Camera

India’s land acquisition disputes have a way out. Both Japan and Gujarat have used it

India’s archaic land laws fuel delays, cost overruns and gridlock in everything from highways to housing. Something has to give.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.