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Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicEdwina Mountbatten

Topic: Edwina Mountbatten

Gandhi suggested giving PM post to Jinnah—who Edwina & Mountbatten found ‘most difficult’

Sam Dalrymple’s ‘Shattered Lands’ presents, for the first time, the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade.

PM’s Museum and Library asks Rahul to return Nehru documents, including letters to Lady Mountbatten

Rizwan Kadri, a member of the museum formerly known as Nehru Memorial, had written to Sonia Gandhi to return 51 cartons allegedly withdrawn on her orders.

The private lives of the Mountbattens — Open marriage, flings and paedophilia

A recent book by British historian Andrew Lownie paints a scandalous picture of the private lives of India’s last viceroy and his wife.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.