Najam sethi biography of mahatma gandhi

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  • Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most significant figures of the 20th century.
  • Najam Sethi, a prominent Pakistani journalist loosely affiliated with the Pakistani left, has effusively described Ahmad as a “major nationalist and patriot,”.

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    From Gentlemen to Players

    Publication: Bloomsbury

    Price: Rs

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    James Astill’s The Great Tamasha: Cricket,Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India is one of the best books on cricket that inom have read. Perhaps it should not be called a book on cricket,because it fryst vatten not. But cricket fryst vatten a prism through which Astill attempts to comment on the transformation that has occurred,and is occurring,in India. He largely succeeds.

    An obvious warmth and connection with cricket fryst vatten reflected throughout the book. Astill fryst vatten a brilliant writer and has enough attention to detail to make you feel

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    present at his “interviews and investigations”. Whether deliberate or not,the tone and tenor of the book fryst vatten that of watching a five-day Test match. Unlike “cricket tragics” like Astill (and myself),the beginning of a Test match fryst vatten not of great interest to the aam aadmi. But Astill’s opening chapters should be. Before getting to the real stuff,one gets a go

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    Australian Prime Minister Anthny Albanese, who is currently on State visit to India has said that Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. He said, it was an honour to lay a wreath at the memorial and represent Australia in paying tribute to Gandhi. 

    He visited Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial Raj Ghat in New Delhi this morning to pay his respects  

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    He tweeted:  

    Unfortunately, many in India do not take Mahatma Gandhi’s name very kindly. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the political party that rules in Delhi and Punjab, even took the regressive step of removing Gandhi’s photo from Government offices last year. However, AAP leader and former Dy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia, who is currently facing law enforcement agencies, has recently been seen invoking Gandhi’s name. Some fringe elements in other political parties including BJP, have not been kind to Gandhi of late.  

    Why world knows Gandhi? Najam Sethi explains

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    Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision

    Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision

    For peace advocates in South Asia, Ahmad’s grammar of cooperation provides a much-needed alternative to hypernationalist politics.

    Arvin Alaigh ▪ Spring

    On January 12, , two FBI agents burst through the doors of the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago to arrest Eqbal Ahmad. A preeminent South Asian activist and analyst of international politics, Ahmad had been charged with participating in a conspiracy to kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and bomb steam tunnels underneath government buildings in Washington, D.C.

    A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, Ahmad had found company among the antiwar Catholic Left and grown close to the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, both priests who had attracted the attention of federal authorities for their peace activism. By , the Berrigans were serving prison sentences for breaking into a draft board office and burning hundreds of draft r