Why Babur Beckons Nehru-Gandhis!
Internet is a great forum. It allows us to probe many unexplored and partially explored events by joining the dots to arrive at the truth or rebut the falsehood. Unfortunately it has also become a source of false More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – IV: Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XTV0Kq2F9EXRdFa3X8RXAUIEGhyCyaL”] In 2005, an otherwise dry academic book called The Mitrokhin Archive, about the activities of the KGB in Third World countries, created an unlikely More...
लोकनायक जय प्रकाश नारायण
मन में बड़ी ललक थी। साल भर बाद अपनी पत्नी और बिटिया के साथ पुनः अपनी जन्म-भूमि पटना More...
Will Sonia Gandhi be able to Ride the Sympathy Wave if she is Jailed?
Many are of the opinion that if the Narendra Modi government takes a tough stand against the various scams carried out by Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen and women, and if somehow she ends up in jail, she will ride More...
Examining the Indo-Bangla Land Boundary Agreement
This paper is coauthored by Shanmukh Nag and Dikgaj. Introduction The Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) has been recently concluded between the governments of India and Bangladesh, with the Modi government and the More...
Lessons of the Indian Emergency
The history of India’s twenty one month Emergency is too well known to need detailed recounting. It began in June 1975, suspending civil liberties and allowed the government to rule by decree. In fact it ushered More...
Three Heroes of Emergency
The final hours of 25 June were detrimental for our country as the then PM Indira Gandhi decided that it was better to put our sacred democracy in comatose than fighting honourably. As we mourn the momentary demise More...
Never Forget the Darkness: Emergency @ 40
India’s strength has always been its vibrant democracy. Ours is perhaps the only country where people from contrastingly different castes, creed, religion and race live together in peace and harmony. The Crime More...
Emergency @ 40: A Dictator removes two elected Chief Ministers
‘Once a dictator always a dictator’ can be said to be a truism suitable for the late former Prime Minister of India Smt Indira Gandhi. Like any leader, she had her highs and lows, more lows to be fair. Among More...
The Religious Crusades of the CIA
Among the murkier chapters in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, the attempt to destabilize societies around the world using religion warrants attention. Allen Dulles, who headed the CIA in its early More...