The volume begins with London diary which Gandhi used to maintain as a student. Another significant document is the green pamphlets which highlighted the humiliating treatment to which the Indians in South Africa were subjected to. The volume includes several petitions he addressed to the government of Great Britain against anti-Indian legislation, and many personal and general letters Gandhi a…
The brief tenure of Alexander Dubcek, the charismatic and courageous leader of Czechoslovakia during the heady "Prague Spring" of 1986, rocked the foundations of European communism. Dubcek, who believed in "Socialism with a human face", brought what Andrei Sakharov called "the breath of freedom" to the Iron Curtain Countries. But the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and Dubcek's removal from powe…