When he was asked why he was so loud in his criticisms of Indian industry when his purpose could be better served by a shrewder approach, he said, “Because I am a Punjabi, not a Marwari”.
Mrs Gandhi had previously delivered 11 consecutive address on I-Day as prime minister following in the footsteps of her father Jawaharlal Nehru who delivered 17 consecutive speeches.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
At 74 years, Modi has served as PM for 11 years & 60 days since May 26, 2014, surpassing Indira Gandhi’s 11-year-59-day record. Nehru served the longest at 16 years, 286 days.
RSS wanted to overthrow Indira Gandhi using whatever means it could, and later had no moral compunctions in flattering and pleading with the same “dictator” who imprisoned them.
In 1976, the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution not only added two words but also introduced changes in 40 Articles & the Seventh Schedule while adding 14 new Articles.
Sugata Srinivasaraju’s ‘The Conscience Network’ moves the needle on Emergency literature, telling the story of academically bright Indians who risked their American Dream to turn the focus on
India’s Emergency.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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