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• India’s Contradictory Stances on Rohingya Refugees

  19 November 2017

  by Kadayam Subramanian
  During his visit to Myanmar in early September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed support for the Myanmar regime’s fight against “extremist violence” perpetrated by the Rohingya rebels but failed to mention the suffering inflicted on innocent Rohingya civilians who have been subjected to violence, including torture and rape, and displacement by the Myanmar security forces in the course of their clearance operations against extremists.
  While supporting the (…)

• Indian Struggles in 1917: On the Eve of the Russian Revolution

  19 November 2017, by Anil Nauriya

  Seldom in history do things happen suddenly; they are often years in the making.
  It is known that during his South Africa years Mahatma Gandhi had corresponded with Leo Tolstoy, described by Lenin in 1908 as the mirror of the Russian Revolution. This correspondence was three or four years prior to Gandhi’s last major agitation in South Africa, in which tens of thousands of Indian mine workers and plantation workers and other indentured workers struck work.
  By the time the Russian (…)

• Nivedita as an Incredible Educationist - Patriot

  19 November 2017

  by Samit Kar
  Swami Vivekananda came in contact with Margaret Elizabeth Nobel for the first time in November 1895 in the latter’s friend’s residence in London. He was then in the midst of a world- wide tour to garner morality and financial support to establish the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission as wished by Sarada Devi, the wife of the Ramakrishna Deva. Vivekananda became a well-known figure in many parts of the world since his famous oration in the World Parliament of Religions (…)

• China’s Support to Terrorist

  19 November 2017, by Kuldip Nayar

  This is a familiar exercise. China resents India’s rule over Arunachal Pradesh. New Delhi, and, on the other hand, ignores the protests and treats the North-East territory as its own. Beijing has been irked by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. The noise was, however, louder when the Dalai Lama went there earlier.
  China and India have seldom agreed on where the actual border line lies. Beijing attacked India in 1962 when New Delhi tried to get back its (…)

• After Indira Gandhi / Being a Proud Indian

  19 November 2017, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  Indira Gandhi’s 33rd death anniversary fell on October 31 this year. And her birth centenary is on November 19, 2017. Remembering her on this occasion we are reproducing the following ‘Editor’s Notebook’ that N.C. wrote on November 6, 1984, that is, soon after her death as well as one of his pieces ten years following her tragic assassination.
  After Indira Gandhi
  Twenty years after her great father’s passing away, Indira Gandhi fell, her frail body riddled with the (…)

• Fidel Castro’s Tribute to Indira Gandhi

  19 November 2017

  November 19 this year marks Indira Gandhi’s birth centenary. On this occasion we remember her by reproducing what Cuba’s President had written about her 32 years ago—this was one of the best tributes to her from anyone after her death. We are also reproducing and publishing some other tributes to Indira Gandhi written after her demise.
  On September 11, 1973, on our way to Vietnam—then involved in the people’s heroic war against the Americans and their Southern puppets, a war that was (…)

• Indira Gandhi and Third World

  19 November 2017, by C Raghavan

  Indira Gandhi died as she lived—courageous and fighting.
  However she is judged at home on her domestic record, in the Third World she is remembered as a courageous woman, who had braved many odds to successfully lead her country, safeguarding Indian independence and national interests, but at the same time viewing them in the wider universal context and as part of the struggle of the peoples of the Third World for peace and development with equity and justice.
  In the international (…)

• Indira Gandhi As I Knew Her

  19 November 2017

  by Madhu Limaye
  Indira Gandhi held the supreme political office for a long period. She was the country’s Prime Minister for sixteen years. Unlike Jawaharlal her Prime Ministership was not uninterrupted. Jawaharlal never tasted defeat. Indira Gandhi’s party was thrown out of power in 1977 and she herself lost the election to the Lok Sabha.
  The Nehru household cannot be called a happy household. The relations among its women members were not on the best of terms. Indira silently watched (…)

• Indiraji’s Martyrdom

  19 November 2017, by Mohit Sen

  Ten years have not dimmed but, on the contrary, brightened the image of Indira Gandhi as one of the most luminous leaders that India and the entire world have known in modern times. These years have also made it clear why she was murdered and who did the murdering.
  In assassinations of this kind it is rarely, if ever, that any enquiry commission finds out the conspirators even if the actual assassins are caught red-handed. This has happened in the case of President Kennedy. So also has it (…)

• The Indira Legacy | PC Joshi

  19 November 2017

  by P.C. Joshi *
  Indira Gandhi is no more. The people of India are slowly emerging out of the trauma of her brutal assassination. Their psychological state is that of a people stricken by a massive earthquake, struggling with themselves to face the devastation and to start the processes of repair and reconstruction. What has stricken India, however, is not a natural calamity but a social, man-made, disaster. It has been caused by the evil forces generated from within but buttressed from (…)