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From the Archives: The mid 1970s investigation into secret US research projects in India | Chakravarthi Raghavan

C Raghavan — 2021-10-01T18:33:22Z

From: Mainstream, May 17, I975
RESEARCH PROJECT:
On July 29, 1974, the Press Trust of India came out with a dispatch revealing the real face of dangerous American research projects under the cover of the WHO. These research outfits spread all over the country are actually meant to serve the Pentagon. The PTI had a hard time unearthing the misdoings of these projects because of the resistance of the Union Health Ministry and such bodies as the Indian Council of Medical Research. Previous (…)

- 2021

Indira Gandhi and Third World

C Raghavan — 2017-11-19T11:16:35Z

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 (…)

- 2017

Indira Gandhi and Third World

C Raghavan — 2011-11-21T09:28:41Z

(On November 19, falls Indira Gandhi's ninetyfourth birth anniversary. On this occasion we reproduce the following article by a veteran journalist based in Geneva. He was the Chief of the Geneva Bureau of the Inter press Third World News Service. This article appeared in Mainstream (November 17, 1984) less than a month after our third PM's tragic assassination.)
Indira Gandhi died as she lived—courageous and fighting.
However she is judged at home on her domestic record, in the Third (…)

- 2011

For Whom the Bell Tolls

C Raghavan — 2007-06-25T13:30:55Z

[(Remembering Emergency June 26, 1975)]
“Never trust your sons, nor treat them during your lifetime in an intimate manner; because, if the Emperor Shah Jehan had not treated Dara Shikoh in this manner, his affairs would not have come to such a sorry pass. Ever keep in view the saying, ‘The Word of a King is Barren'.”
Aurangzeb's alleged will, given in Ankam i-Alamgiri (ascribed to Hamid-ud-Din Khan Bahadur, quoted in Sircar's Short History of Aurangzeb, p. 390) The din and noise of the (…)

- June 22, 2007