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Threat of Genetic Contamination
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Discovery of Nehru
21 November 2012, by SCThe grace, dignity, candour and transparency with which she spoke while delivering the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in the Capital yesterday (November 14), that is, on the occasion of our first PM’s 123rd birth anniversary, indeed marked her (...) -
Obama: New Twist to the ‘Melting Pot’
21 November 2012, by Sandhya JainAt the end of America’s costliest and nastiest electoral battles, widely predicted by analysts to be ‘hung’ like the George Bush-Al Gore encounter in 2000, President Barack Obama made history as the second Democrat President to win a second term in (...) -
Agenda for Reforms?
21 November 2012, by Devaki Jain“What’s in a name?” asks Juliet in Shakes-peare’s Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet,” she says. (Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
But Juliet could not have imagined how the term/name “reform” has not (...) -
Their Fathers’ Sons are Rising, but Look Elsewhere for the Real India
21 November 2012, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
From Nitin Gadkari to Mamata Banerjee, all politicians describe controversies surrounding them as media creations. Which is like looking at a pimple on your face and calling it a mirror creation. There are other things which are (...) -
Why Congress Ignored Feroze Gandhi’s Birth Centenary Last Month
21 November 2012, by Kuldip NayarWhat has been known as the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, most powerful in India, seems to be dropping the name of Nehru, slowly but gra-dually. Nehru is still there but in a perfunctory manner. It is really Mrs Indira Gandhi who occupies the space. I (...) -
Good-bye Feroze
21 November 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following is the short piece by N.C. on Feroze Gandhi during the Emergency in 1976.
Parliament has just repealed the Parlia-mentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act which came into force twenty years ago in 1956. Late Feroze (...) -
The Chinese Aggression
21 November 2012[(On November 14 this year was observed Jawaharlal Nehru’s 123rd birth anniversary. This year also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Chinise aggression of 1962 that tragically cut short the life of our first PM. On this occasion we are (...) -
The Proclamation of Emergency
21 November 2012For five years, we have been the victims of Chinese aggression across our frontiers in the north. That aggression was, to begin with, rather furtive. Occasionally there were some incidents and conflicts. These conflicts might well be termed (...) -
The If-ing of Nehru
21 November 2012by M. Chalapathi Rau
If only Jawaharlal Nehru had insisted on Tibet’s independence in 1950; if he had only propounded no Panchsheel with the Chinese; if only he had aligned India with the West—these are the irritant ‘ifs’ bandied about in coffee (...)
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