When America urged China to attack India during the 1971 war
The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 began in an era of the US-China rapprochement. The USA’s bittersweet love affair with China was emerging. ...
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It’s time for moderate Sikhs to call out the Khalistani elements among them
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” -- the farmer protests against the Farm ...
Jayaprakash Narayan: An over-celebrated activist who gave India 5 decades of pain
Jayaprakash Narayan is credited with spearheading the anti-Indira Gandhi movement of the mid-1970s. And he did lead it. As a leader and street ...
Rahul Gandhi is the modern Indira Gandhi as far as the dictatorship is concerned
Rahul Gandhi is indeed the grandson of Indira Gandhi. This is a factual statement, but it has much deeper connotations. What are the ...
India was essentially a Kleptocracy under Nehru-Gandhi
Independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure was not less than a disaster for India’s economy and bureaucracy. Nehru was entrusted with ...
Privatisation was turned into a taboo by Nehru first and Indira later in classic Stalin and Mao style
In its known existence, India’s political economy has always been tilted towards the privatisation of entities. Collective ownership of entities like schools and ...
“I think that was a mistake,” Rahul Gandhi admits the Emergency of 1975 was wrong
Misrepresentation of facts has been a major weapon in the arsenal of the Indian National Congress. And it is always expected of Rahul ...
Sanjay Gandhi era returns: Kamal Nath to go on a sterilization spree again, just like the old days
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Kamal Nath is in the middle of a controversy yet again- this time for reigniting the sterilisation agenda of ...
‘Indira Gandhi used to meet don Karim Lala,’ Sanjay Raut highlights Gandhis’ connection with the underworld, irks Congress
Part-time shaayar and overestimated poll strategist from the Shiv Sena, Sanjay Raut dropped a startling bombshell yesterday, much to the effect of leaving the Congress party in ...
Read it to believe it – When Indira Gandhi shut down JNU for 46 days
The infamous JNU recently witnessed ugly scenes of violence as a group of masked goons ran riot in the university campus. An objective ...
Why Indira Gandhi must be smiling down approvingly at PM Modi and Amit Shah when they demolished Article 370
A 1981 letter written by Indira Gandhi has exposed the Congress duplicity on Article 35A, a discriminatory, toxic provision that empowered the Jammu and ...
Indira Gandhi could have won back Pakistan occupied Kashmir in 1971, but she had other ideas
October 31 is a day of mixed emotions in India's independent history. On one hand, it is the birth anniversary of the man ...
