
Manash Bhattacharjee
Articles
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1 week ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Manash Bhattacharjee
On Jawaharlal Nehru’s 61st death anniversary, I would like to draw attention to something that has rarely found focus: Jawaharlal Nehru’s peacemaking role during the Bihar massacre of Muslims in 1946 as a repercussion to what happened to Hindus in Noakhali. Nehru was not just a political negotiator, a policymaker, or a man of high politics.
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1 month ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Manash Bhattacharjee
The brutal murder of twenty-eight tourists at the Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam, Kashmir, in the afternoon of April 22, has shocked the nation, and people are numbed and enraged. As usual, there are political speculations, positions, and posturing around the grave incident. Reading various shades of opinions that have appeared in the media and on social media, I felt we must not lose sight of the truth.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |Manash Bhattacharjee
At the launch of historian Aditya Mukherjee’s Nehru’s India: Past Present & Future in New Delhi earlier this month, invited speakers shared their own sense of intellectual, political and cultural affinity with Nehru, referring to certain highpoints of Mukherjee’s book in passing. I consider this an unsatisfactory gesture, as the book deserved primary engagement. Yet, I am willing to concede such a gesture is somewhat understandable in Nehru’s case.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
frontline.thehindu.com | Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy |Manash Bhattacharjee
In the months before Partition, Mahatma Gandhi travelled across India trying to prevent communal violence and what would become one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies. Among those who witnessed his ultimately futile mission up close was his grandniece, Manu Gandhi. Her diary captures an intimate portrait of hope against darkness. Through her eyes, we see Gandhi’s final mission for peace, recorded in quiet moments between epochal changes.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
outlookindia.com | Manash Bhattacharjee
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