BARRISTER SRIKISHEN – NATIONALIST & REVOLUTIONARY OF HYDERABAD
Dr. Rahul A. Shastri, President, Samvit Kendra Chaturbhuj Srikishen (c. 1884? -1962 CE) was the son of Rai C. Balmukund, a respected judge of the Hyderabad High Court who retired…
MORU-RAMDAS – THE FORGOTTEN HEROES & ANTI-BRAHMINISM
The last testament of Nizam Asaf Jah I Mir Qamruddin Khan is an interesting document. In course of seventeen instructions, it mentions five persons by name and singles out two…
WERE AKKANNA & MADANNA NATIONALIST MARTYRS?
– Dr. Rahul A. Shastri, President, Samvit Kendra The idea that those who hold other countries to be their fatherland, or consider them to be holy, have dual loyalties and…
Raja Mahipat Ram and His Times
Dr. Rahul A. Shastri, President, Samvit Kendra By 1765, the second Nizam had entered into a treaty with the British, agreeing to keep the French away. In spite of this,…
SIX SOURCES OF COMMUNIST POWER
. SIX SOURCES OF COMMUNIST POWER – MYTH, IDEOLOGY, ORGANISATION, FINANCE, CULTURAL NETWORK, USE OF 3 INSTITUTIONS . . – Sitaram Goel in Nehru’s Fatal Friendship . . . [Sita…
WHEN MARX CRITICISED ‘RAW’ COMMUNISM
-Dr. Rahul Shastri Although widely known as the founder of Modern Communism, Marx wrote very little on the ideal of communism [Sayers 2014: 9, Auerbach & Skott 1993: 195] Only…
Bhāgyanagar – the living root of Hyderabad
Dr. Rahul A. Shastri, President, Samvit Kendra Hyderabad was founded with the construction of Chārminār in 1591-2 CE by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shāh, then in his mid twenties, and through…
RAVANA – A Serial Rapist and Tormentor of the Helpless
By Dr Rahul A. Shastri Who was Ravana? Ravana’s birth-name was Dashanana. His father was Vishravas s/o brahmin sage Pulastya, who is believed to hail from village Bisrakh in Haryana.…
Riddles in Communism
Dr Ambedkar analysed Communism through the vantage point of Buddhism. He contemplated on the crucial triad of ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’, and unlike Communism, didn’t wish to compromise on any of…
Sri MādariBhāgya Reddy Varma – A Biography
Sri Bhāgya Reddy Varma pioneered social reform and uplift of so-called panchamas, education of women, education in Telugu and religious reform in Hyderabad and the country between 1906 and 1935. Born…