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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicGujarat Giants

Topic: Gujarat Giants

Dinkar Mehta became sole communist mayor of Ahmedabad, beating Sardar Patel’s influence

Mehta found Gandhi’s vision of a classless, Stateless society built through non-violence to be an idealistic outlook.

Who was the Gujarati poet praised by Tennyson? The man behind India’s age of consent law

Behramji Malabari got support from the government to translate the Hibbert Lectures to Sanskrit, Bengali, Marathi, Hindi and Tamil.

Gujarat’s Shardaben Mehta inspired Gandhi. Kept her doors open even for non-Congress leaders

Shardaben was among the first Gujarati women to complete graduation. She travelled across India and met stalwarts such as Tagore, Motilal Nehru, and Lala Lajpat Rai.

Gujarati poet Krishnalal Shridharani’s thesis was ‘gospel’ for American civil rights activists

Shridharani ‘took the mysticism out of Gandhianism and instead provided a Gandhi of pragmatic action or realpolitik.’

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.