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Saturday, September 13, 2025
TopicIndira Gandhi

Topic: Indira Gandhi

Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi: The enfant terrible of Indian politics who became one of India’s finest leaders

Dasmunsi was an outstanding mass mobiliser, persuasive orator, street-smart political fighter and more, Mani Shankar Aiyar writes in a tribute to his friend.

Indira Gandhi was so much more than the autocrat who imposed Emergency

Why did she call elections in 1977, or return to power with a brute majority in 1980? On her birth centenary, Indira Gandhi deserved an honest reassessment.

Talk Point: Is Narendra Modi the new Indira Gandhi?

On her 100th birthday anniversary, we ask experts: Is Modi the new Indira?

The Pink Curse of Indiranomics

Indira’s was a ruder Socialism than her father’s. Hers was a unique socialist-populism which we call povertarianism. Iron Lady realised, but too late, that she had erred.

Talk Point: In taking risks, Modi has surpassed all other PMs, including Indira Gandhi

In taking risks, Modi has surpassed all other PMs, including Indira Gandhi, writes Sangit Ragi, professor at Delhi University.

Talk Point: Indira wrote the ‘rules’ according to which India’s Game of Thrones is played

In many ways, Narendra Modi is Indira Gandhi’s true political heir; he is supreme in the party and the government like her.

Talk Point: Policies apart, even Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi’s leadership styles are different

Indira Gandhi firmly maintained the Non-Aligned Movement, now we seem to be leaning far more towards America.

Talk Point: Indira was a successful diplomat, Modi just a passionate world traveller

Indira Gandhi was pro-poor, while Narendra Modi bends in front of big corporate houses.

Talk Point: Any attempt to equate Modi and Indira is a one-dimensional facile exercise

The fundamental difference between the two leaders has to do with their varied backgrounds and ideologies.

‘We simply don’t have time’: Read Indira Gandhi’s letters defending bank nationalisation

On her 100th birth anniversary, letters from Indira Gandhi reveal how she handled the fallout of her biggest economic decision as Prime Minister: bank nationalisation.

On Camera

Charlie Kirk’s killing has America at war with itself. Foreigners & visa-seekers ‘warned’

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, gunned down this week, was no ordinary influencer. He helped bring the Trump administration to power. His death has deepened America’s Left-Right divide.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.