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  Pandit Sunderlal (1886-1881) NK SINGH An interview with Pandit Sunderlal , the Gandhian peacenik. To access PDF of the article please click on the link below: Frontier 4 July 1970

Sunderlal (far left) walking with Gandhi ji to Birla House prayer meeting NK SINGH Among the most extraordinary people I have met, and interviewed as a journalist, was Gandhian scholar Pandit Sunderlal  (1886-1981). Pandit Sunderlal had become a legend in his lifetime. He was better known as the author of Bharat Mein Angrezi Raj , a 1,000-page tome in Hindi, whose publication in 1929 shook the British Empire. The Raj banned the book within four days of its publication. However, by that time its 1,700 copies had already reached the readers. The Government launched a massive drive to confiscate the printed copies of the book, raiding almost 1,000 houses of citizens across the country who were suspected to possess its copies. However, revolutionaries resorted to clandestine circulation of the banned book that exposed, with facts and figures, the colonial policy of ‘divide and rule’ to subjugate India. To possess and read the ‘subversive’ book became a matter of p...

Jawaharlal Nehru with Ho Chi Minh, Pic credit Wikimedia NK SINGH Dr Ho Chi Minh – familiarly known as “Uncle Ho” – is a legend among North and South Vietnamese alike. No leader of a small nation has ever left so deep an impression on the history of his time as Uncle Ho. There are many others who have led their people to independence from colonial rule. But no one has had to face the kind of desperate odds Ho had to in waging armed struggle against a host of adversaries for so long a time. Ho Chi Minh belonged to the generation of Gandhi and Nehru, the Asian generation that challenged the defeated the 200-year-old imperialism of Europe. He was to Vietnamese what Gandhi was to Indians. Nehru said about him: “Judged by any standard, he is most remarkable man of our time.” Uncle Ho’s life was a story of struggle. He was born on 19 th May 1890. He was originally named Nguyen That Thanh or Nguyen Van Thanh. His father Nguyen Sinh Huy, a scholarly aristocrat in court, w...

Indo-Nepal border. Source Patrika NK SINGH A border dispute has cropped up again between India and Nepal. It is not the first time that the two friendly neighbours have locked horns over territorial dispute.   The two nations have such close cultural and traditional ties that the citizens don’t need a passport to travel to either country. As I had mentioned in an article in Frontier of 28 June, 1969, at the root of the problem is the ‘ British made boundary ’. The Nepalese side has expressed its dissatisfaction over the job done by the British. Excerpts from ‘The Susta Issue’: It is not just a boundary problem. Indo-Nepal relations were very good in the past. Everything was there – cooperation, trade and commerce. There is a geographical relation between the two countries as well as historical. Then, why the change? A  section of Nepalese think that India is trying to impose herself on Nepal. Extremist elements are growing and a large section of students is u...