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                                                          At Cooloolah                                   Judith Wright The blue crane fishing in Cooloolah’s twilight has finished there longer than our centuries. He is the certain heir of lake and evening, And he will wear their colour till he dies ; but I’m a stranger, come of a conquering people. I cannot share his calm, who watch his lake, being unloved by all my eyes delight in  and make uneasy, for an old, murder’s sake. Those dark-skinned people who ones named Cooloolah  knew that no land is lost or own by wars, for earth is spirit; the invaders feet will tangle in nets there and his blood be thinned by fears. Riding at noon and ninety years ago, my grandfather was beckoned by a ghost a black acc...

  10 MAR 2020 HIND SWARAJ OF GANDHI4 MIN READ Tags History Source : The Hindu Manifest Pedagogy; Hind Swaraj is the foundational text of Gandhian world view. It’s ideas on economy, polity and society and the nature of satyagraha are very important for both the History and Ethics section.  In news: Chief Justice of India, S.A. Bobde, at International Judicial Conference 2020 cited Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj and observed that “real rights are a result of the performance of duty.” Placing it in syllabus: Hind Swaraj  Dimensions: Context in which it is written  Outline of the central ideas Relevance for today’s India Content: Context in which it is written: Hind Swaraj or Indian Home-Rule is written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in a dialogic form between the Reader and the Editor of a journal/newspaper.  He wrote this book in his native language, Gujarati, while traveling from London to South Africa on board SS Kildonan Castle between November 13 and November 22, 1909.  The...