In April 2001, Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered an address to the Majlis of the Islamic Republic of Iran, highlighting commonalities between India and Iran, while calling for stronger ties.
Vajpayee's foster daughter Namita Bhattacharya among those who paid floral tributes to the late prime minister at Sadaiv Atal memorial on his birth anniversary.
During her lecture at the Prime Minister's Museum and Library, journalist Neerja Chowdhury unpacked Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tension-filled partnership with LK Advani.
Faisal Naeem was speaking at the 8th Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture organised by the India Foundation at the India Habitat Centre ahead of Vajpayee’s birth centenary on 25 December.
Book by Ashok Tandon, incharge of media relations in Vajpayee PMO, also narrates drama that unfolded at Palam airport when special plane was being dispatched during IC-814 hijack.
On 15 August 2002, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered a speech outlining the many challenges facing India — from terrorism, poverty to natural disasters — while calling for national unity to take the nation forward.
RAM is one of the most adored performances of the Ramayana, which returns to the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra every year – an ode to the enduring love for both the epic and its re-enactment.
From the Sangh agenda to Pakistan policy, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a man of contradictions. On his death anniversary, a look at a political life that defied pinning down.
‘Believer’s Dilemma’, is the the second part of Abhishek Choudhary’s biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In it, he covers the former PM’s life from 1977 to his death in 2018.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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