The latest is a 55-year-old school principal – held for killing a six-year-old after she rejected his attempt to sexually assault her – who Congress has said is connected to the RSS and BJP.

When PM Modi calls people forcibly displaced by 'development' projects and who are fighting for their own survival, 'urban Naxals', he not only demeans people's struggles but also ignores government actors who actually delayed the project.

While the nation is becoming more aware of the ills of what has now been infamously dubbed as the 'Gujarat Model', the Adivasis of Kevadia village in Gujarat have seen it all and have successfully built a resistance movement.

While Gandhi said he would not come in the way of anyone taking the smallpox vaccine, he also said he could not change his beliefs and encourage it.

Ousted without rehabilitation in 1921 and jailed for resisting, the families of the 52 villages in Maharashtra’s Mulshi taluka who lost their land to the Tata Power dam face ever-growing troubles even today.

Despite the influence he wielded on the people, Gandhi was not part of the government. His relationship with industrialists needs to be seen very differently than that of a government functionary or authority.