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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicGujarat Giants

Topic: Gujarat Giants

Dinkar Mehta became sole communist mayor of Ahmedabad, beating Sardar Patel’s influence

Mehta found Gandhi’s vision of a classless, Stateless society built through non-violence to be an idealistic outlook.

Who was the Gujarati poet praised by Tennyson? The man behind India’s age of consent law

Behramji Malabari got support from the government to translate the Hibbert Lectures to Sanskrit, Bengali, Marathi, Hindi and Tamil.

Gujarat’s Shardaben Mehta inspired Gandhi. Kept her doors open even for non-Congress leaders

Shardaben was among the first Gujarati women to complete graduation. She travelled across India and met stalwarts such as Tagore, Motilal Nehru, and Lala Lajpat Rai.

Gujarati poet Krishnalal Shridharani’s thesis was ‘gospel’ for American civil rights activists

Shridharani ‘took the mysticism out of Gandhianism and instead provided a Gandhi of pragmatic action or realpolitik.’

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.