Mainstream Weekly

Nikhilda: Some Nostalgic Reflections

P.V. Narasimha Rao — 2013-11-01T10:12:44Z

Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was to have released the book India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders—Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty's Writings (published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.) at the meeting held in New Delhi on November 3, 2003 to mark N.C.'s ninetieth birth anniversary, but could not do so as he was indisposed. So he sent the following letter to the Mainstream editor and Secretary of the Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Foundation, which was read out at the meeting.
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- 2013

Contours of Emerging World

P.V. Narasimha Rao — 2011-07-20T10:26:53Z

[Former PM P.V. Narasimha Rao's ninetieth birth anniversary was observed on June 28, 2011. He was born on June 28, 1921 at Vangara village in Bheemdevarpalli mandal of Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar district and he breathed his last in New Delhi on December 23, 2004 at the age of 83. Besides serving the Congress party and the Andhra Pradesh State Government in various capacities, he became the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in September 1971 and remained in that post till January 1973. (…)

- 2011

Nikhilda: Some Nostalgic Reflections

P.V. Narasimha Rao — 2009-11-01T12:19:07Z

On November 3, 2009 N.C. would have completed 96 years had he been alive. On the occasion of his ninetyseventh birthday we reproduce what a former PM and a veteran journalist (both of whom are no longer in our midst) wrote about him after he passed away on June 27, 1998.
Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was to have released the book India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders—Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty's Writings (published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.) at the meeting held (…)

- October 2009

Nehru and Non-alignment

P.V. Narasimha Rao — 2009-06-02T08:34:24Z

We are presently celebrating the birth centenary of Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the greatest sons of India. He was a multi-faceted personality. He was first and foremost a patriot, a great freedom fighter who bravely faced personal privation and misfortune during the struggle, was chosen by Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, as his second in command to lead the nation after Independence, was India's first Prime Minister, builder of modern India, and initiator of the policy of (…)

- May 2009