NZ media reveals identity of drug racket mastermind a year after he was sentenced to 22 years in jail for importing large quantities of methamphetamine.
On 20 June 1968, PM Indira Gandhi delivered a speech in Srinagar warning against communalism, regionalism, and inequality as threats to national integration.
During Indira’s time, Youth Congress was a ‘safety valve’ against growing popular dissent. Sanjay then turned it into feeder cadre for Congress. It’s now struggling to rebrand itself.
On 26 January 1966, Indira Gandhi delivered a speech that was broadcast over All India Radio. This was her first address to the nation after becoming India’s first woman prime minister.
Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.
Haryana notifies law to take over Dhirendra Brahmachari’s Gurugram ashram. Branded Indira Gandhi’s ‘Rasputin’ by opposition, he remains one of most controversial spiritual figures.
Over the years, many recipients have been leaders who can be placed in the Centre-Left category, but not all. For instance, in 1997, it was awarded to former US President Jimmy Carter.
The ex-Chilean president was awarded the 2024 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for her work on gender equality, human rights, and democracy.
Bachelet, only woman to have served as the President of Chile, is the 37th recipient Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award, which was instituted in 1986.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
That’s the problem with people like Ms. Sagarika Ghose.
According to them, the feminist movement is defined by dressing flamboyantly, smoking cigarettes and having hard-drinks at parties. When a woman indulges in all of the above, she is given the certificate of being a feminist by the likes of Ms. Ghose. If she happens to divorce her husband, things become even better. It’s as if she has earned the black belt of feminism.
What these people do not understand is that a divorce is a very painful episode for both the partners. It’s a pain that lasts for a lifetime. Nobody wishes to get divorced. And most certainly it is not something to be celebrated or tomtomed as an achievement.
Fine, evocative column. Stirs memories of my own mother, also married to a mandarin at age 20, first child at 21. Lived close to Park Street in Nizam Palace from 1974 to 1976, left too soon from our government apartment in Moti Bagh in 1980. Not a feminist rebel, stayed within the mould of society, but brought us up so well. Exceptional sense of personal hygiene which she passed on to us, always fragrant with Yardley soap and talc, lavender. More emotional strength and fortitude than today’s young sometimes exhibit, despite so many more attainments and opportunities. A beautiful Lahore girl, Partition interrupted her formal education.
How did such a strong independent lady of great dignity and fortitude have such a daughter?
Some families, very unfortunately, are like that. The parents might be very honest and upright, principled and resilient.
But the children turn out to be immoral and unscrupulous.
Ms. Sagarika Ghose has fallen far too short of the lofty standards set by her mother. The apple has indeed fallen far from the tree.
Ms. Ghose, are just another elitist, born into privilege, who is disappointed that she is not ruling over India anymore. A product of nepotism who got where she is just because of the family you were born into. That also explains your love and admiration for fellow nepotists like Rahul Gandhi and Abhishek Banerjee. Your derision and contempt for the underprivileged sections of our society is quite well known- the class which Modi came from.
That’s the problem with people like Ms. Sagarika Ghose.
According to them, the feminist movement is defined by dressing flamboyantly, smoking cigarettes and having hard-drinks at parties. When a woman indulges in all of the above, she is given the certificate of being a feminist by the likes of Ms. Ghose. If she happens to divorce her husband, things become even better. It’s as if she has earned the black belt of feminism.
What these people do not understand is that a divorce is a very painful episode for both the partners. It’s a pain that lasts for a lifetime. Nobody wishes to get divorced. And most certainly it is not something to be celebrated or tomtomed as an achievement.
Why did my earlier reply not go through
Fine, evocative column. Stirs memories of my own mother, also married to a mandarin at age 20, first child at 21. Lived close to Park Street in Nizam Palace from 1974 to 1976, left too soon from our government apartment in Moti Bagh in 1980. Not a feminist rebel, stayed within the mould of society, but brought us up so well. Exceptional sense of personal hygiene which she passed on to us, always fragrant with Yardley soap and talc, lavender. More emotional strength and fortitude than today’s young sometimes exhibit, despite so many more attainments and opportunities. A beautiful Lahore girl, Partition interrupted her formal education.
Who cares?
How did such a strong independent lady of great dignity and fortitude have such a daughter?
Some families, very unfortunately, are like that. The parents might be very honest and upright, principled and resilient.
But the children turn out to be immoral and unscrupulous.
Ms. Sagarika Ghose has fallen far too short of the lofty standards set by her mother. The apple has indeed fallen far from the tree.
Ms. Ghose, are just another elitist, born into privilege, who is disappointed that she is not ruling over India anymore. A product of nepotism who got where she is just because of the family you were born into. That also explains your love and admiration for fellow nepotists like Rahul Gandhi and Abhishek Banerjee. Your derision and contempt for the underprivileged sections of our society is quite well known- the class which Modi came from.