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Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an oft-mocked man these days. Especially since the man he derided as a Chaiwallah, ended up becoming the PM. Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an IFS ...

Treaty of Allahabad 1765 On this fateful day in 1765, Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II signed away India to the British by signing the treaty of Allahabad, thereby, unwittingly inaugurating the ...

Nehru not only excelled in his so called “platonic relationship” with Lady Mountbatten, but also was a clear winner with his liberal values which included British mannerisms and may I add ...

Is death penalty an antidote to terror? Read on Remember Gadkari-Kejriwal affair? When Kejriwal went to jail because he has no substantive reason for calling Gadkari “India’s most corrupt”. At that ...

The term dictatorship is freely used these days in the national political discourse. Rahul Gandhi and his family feel that Narendra Modi is a tyrant who wants to subvert India's democracy. Arvind ...

After receiving his BA/LLB degree he could have simply opted for a life full of comforts, he thought of educating the Indians instead and laid the foundations of ‘Deccan Educational Society’ ...

I am the wind that blows along the plains of India and through the hills, and rustles through the mountains and creates ripples on the surface of rivers and waves in ...

The forecasts for this year’s monsoons may be gloomy, but it will be sensible to assume that the forthcoming monsoon session in the parliament is going to be a heavy downpour ...

Lalu's interview in HT today makes one feel that India is perhaps a lost idea whose time is up. There is probably truth in the fact that India is the only nation ...

Ever since US decided that the Shah of Iran was the right ruler for Iran, US has been wrong about Iran. He was a despot, a torturer and a cruel man ...

History belongs to the victors, they say. To put it even better, History belongs to the rulers. Those who rule, interpret history and then present it in a way that shows ...

The mighty Maratha empire was now already tottering. Still smarting from the vicious defeat at the hands of the Afghans at Panipat, the Marathas had retreated to become some sort of ...