Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…
From Durban to Delhi, millions light diyas in defiance of darkness — reminding a fractured world that goodness still glows
On his first diplomatic visit to India, Nelson Mandela was treated as a kindred spirit and likened to Gandhi, a gesture he gently rejected.
The India politician is on a Global South tour to spread a message of diasporans blending loyalty to their birthplace with pride in their ancestral homeland
Cyril Ramaposa showed the world that turning the other cheek does work, but Trump does not have the emotional intelligence to recognise this
It is 75 years since India became its own democracy, free from foreign control
Now turned into a museum, the house where he lived in the eastern town of Phoenix and which also housed his newspaper is falling into disrepair
Inanda heritage route museum and the Phoenix Settlement that Gandhi founded to uplift the community no longer have any major donors
I felt curious grief, gut-wrenching sadness at the passing of a woman I did not know and had never me
Democratic countries that are committed to human rights must take decisive action to pressure India to quell its abuses and protect minority communities.
The current dispensation is becoming a majoritarian Hindu state as Narendra Modi promotes hatred and intolerance of Muslims and minorities
Denis Mukwege is a medic based in the DRC, and he and his staff have helped thousands of victims abused in its prolonged and bloody wars.
The Indian prime minister invokes peace icons across the globe, but is yet to condemn the acts of one of his key ministers
The United States president-elect says the accolade means a lot to him.
Both are icons of peace, both resisted oppression, both fought for their belief. Mandela took to violence and Mahatma had to shed his caste prism.
Mahatma Gandhi’s pacifist philosophy inspired many, but his remarks about black South Africans mean his legacy is not beyond reproach.
On his 146th birthday anniversary, Verashni Pillay reflects on Mahatma Gandhi’s complicated legacy for a country whose majority he did not champion.
While there is better access to a quality life, let us not forget the sacrificies that made our freedom possible and pretend there’s no more to do.
Historian Faisal Devji unearths some unusual and unlikely links in South Asia’s fraught history.
The Indian government has bought a collection of letters, papers and photos relating to Mahatma Gandhi ahead of its planned auction in London.
