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Modi’s One Year As Prime Minister
30 May 2015, by Barun Das GuptaHow does one prepare the report-card on the performance of one year of the NDA Government headed by Narendra Modi? There are obvious contradictions in the ideological conviction and commitments of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues (...) -
A Year to Remember
30 May 2015, by Badri RainaIf words were deeds,
And catch-phrases files,
If sophistry were argument,
And achievement intent,
The strong man with fifty-
Six inch starched frontispiece
Has indeed fulfilled every
Bharti’s needs to heart’s content.
How the prices of (...) -
Gen Musharraf’s Outbursts
30 May 2015, by Kuldip NayarI have not been able to make out why General Pervez Musharraf, who is under house arrest on charge of treason, has made a public speech on the Kargil war which I watched on a television channel. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must be under pressure (...) -
Minorities under PM Modi: A Landscape scarred with Hate, Violence, Impunity
30 May 2015, by John DayalOn the night of Monday, June 4, 2015, less than a fortnight of the swearing in of the new government headed by Narendra Modi, 28-year-old Information Technology manager Mohsin Mohammed Shaikh was lynched in Pune, Maharashtra. The Times of India (...) -
India without Nehru
30 May 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following piece, which appeared in the ‘New Delhi Skyline’ of Mainstream, was written two days after Jawaharlal Nehru’s demise on May 27, 1964. It was published on May 30, 1964.
As the golden flame licked up the funeral (...) -
Nehru for Today
30 May 2015May 27 this year marks Jawaharlal Nehru’s fiftyfirst death anniversary. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing the following excerpts from his speeches and writings. We are also reproducing several articles on Nehru by noted (...) -
Reflections on Nehru
30 May 2015, by Sajjad ZaheerI loved and respected him, worked with him and even followed him in many ways, and yet I was among his severest critics, and perhaps no one was a greater disappointment to me and to my group than Jawaharlal Nehru.
Our two families were known to (...) -
Nehru’s Scientific Attitude
30 May 2015, by Anees ChishtiScience has brought all these mighty changes and not all of them have been for the good of humanity. But the most vital and hopeful of the changes that it has brought about has been the development of the scientific outlook in man. —Jawaharlal (...) -
Nehru’s Chairmanship of Allahabad’s Municipality, 1925-1927 its relevance for Delhi’s governance
30 May 2015by Urvashi Dhamija
While the cityscape of Allahabad may be quite unremarkable today, the management of its municipality under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru from 1925 till 1927 is generally regarded as a bright patch in the city’s history. (...) -
Nehru’s Struggle for Secularism
30 May 2015, by Sumit ChakravarttyThe French writer, André Malraux, had once asked Jawaharlal Nehru what had been his “greatest difficulty since independence”. Nehru’s instant reply was: “Creating a just state by just means.” Soon he added as an afterthought: “Perhaps, too, creating (...)
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