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Remind the Public As To What Made Keshub Mahindra Decline the Padma Bhushan Award 2002 - Letter to the Editor

N D Jayaprakash — 2023-04-22T02:01:12Z

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To: The Editor, Mainstream Weekly, http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/
16 April 2023
This is to draw your kind attention to an article that was re-published in India Today on 13th April 2023 titled “Why Keshub Mahindra declined the Padma Bhushan”. The said article was reportedly first published in the Business Today edition dated 31st March 2002. The said article has attempted to project Keshub Mahindra as a “gentleman”, who did not want to embarrass the (…)

- 2023

Letter to PM on the 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Tragedy

Abdul Jabbar Khan, N D Jayaprakash — 2009-12-12T01:53:52Z

Respected Sir,
On behalf of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS), we, the undersigned, are baffled and shocked over the UPA and the Congress party's silence regarding the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
We cannot help notice that your honourable self had led the nation in paying homage to the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary. We gather from personal (…)

- December 2009

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: India Backtracks on Disarmament

N D Jayaprakash — 2008-07-30T11:33:36Z

The text of the Indo-US nuclear deal, which is titled “Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of India and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy” (also known as the 123 Agreement) and which was released on August 3, 2007, is totally silent on the issue of nuclear disarmament. This is wholly contradictory to the explicit assurance made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his statement before Parliament in response to the (…)

- July 26, 2008