Gandhi’s iconography represented his austere politics. Many of the objects that we associate him with today evoke a sense of purity. The “visual Gandhi” is at once, a national leader, a gentle and ...

Mahatma Gandhi, an arresting and appealing figure, whose appearance adds to his politics and ideology, was iconised long before his martyrdom. This article on the official and popular iconography of ...

KOCHI: A riveting conversation on the imagery, ideas and ideals ascribed to Mahatma Gandhi is on the cards at an evening discussion to be held between distingui ...

The politics of iconography The BJP is busy collecting an eclectic list of heroes who it claims were sidelined by the Congress in the quest to play up the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Even as a confident Narendra Modi continues to wow country after country and emerge as a global “rockstar”, the Congress party is finding it hard to come out of ...

Mahatma Gandhi, known in India as “the father of the nation,” was born 150 years ago today, on October 2, 1869. His birthday is a major national holiday called Gandhi Jayanti, and it is marked ...