Topic: Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru vs RSS-backed Organiser: A battle that led to curbs on our freedom of expression
The first amendment to the Constitution, brought in by the Nehru govt, drastically curbed freedom of speech, and was primarily due to a battle between him and RSS-backed Organiser.
Real fight for National Archives should be about what it doesn’t contain, not the relocation
Nehru's core template for recording history was unity, Modi’s is uniformity. But history, at best, is an 'argument'.
Emotion or evidence – liberals crying for National Archives just don’t get Hindutva history
Nehruvian scholars must return to how Jawaharlal Nehru himself viewed history.
What Rahul Gandhi should know about Congress-RSS ties before he attacks ‘Sangh Parivar’
Over the last six decades, the RSS and senior Congress leaders have come face to face on several occasions. Rahul Gandhi must know what that history looks like.
Modi to launch ‘Azadi Ka Amrut’ event on Dandi anniversary in grand run-up to 75th I-Day
Govt’s planned 25-day celebrations will include exhibitions on freedom fighters including Gandhi, Patel and Netaji. First PM Nehru missing in list of names.
Gandhi, Sanjay Dutt, Kasab — Pune’s Yerawada jail, open to public, has many stories to tell
Yerawada jail was opened to public on 26 January, making it the first prison in Maharashtra to do so. Other prisons with historical significance likely to open up too in boost to 'jail tourism'.
Not really Nehru, it was Gandhi and Congress ‘Right’ who made Bose resign as party president
In ‘Nehru & Bose’, Rudrangshu Mukherjee writes about how Subhas Chandra Bose had no choice but to resign from Congress in his second term as president.
How ‘Muslim zones’ and ‘mini-Pakistans’ came about in Delhi
In ‘Contested Homelands’, Nazima Parveen chronicles how Patel and Nehru disagreed on Delhi’s post-Partition areas with ‘Hamare log’ and Muslims.
Britain had become paranoid of India-US friendship. Nehru’s letter to Roosevelt didn’t help
In ‘A Matter Of Trust’, Meenakshi Ahamed writes that Nehru had reached out to US President Roosevelt for American help in the lead up to World War-II
Indian Army wanted Royal Enfield Bullets — Nehru ensured they were ‘made in India’ first
In ‘Indian Icon’, Amrit Raj traces the journey of Royal Enfield setting up an Indian company with Madras Motors because the Army wanted hardy bikes.
Pandemic paradox: Rich Indians buying Merc SUVs while the poor sell houses to pay Covid bills
Brisk sales of luxury cars and soaring net worth for billionaires amid widespread joblessness and depleted savings reflect a lack of fiscal imagination in India.
Covid essentials get GST relief, but rift between Modi govt & Congress-ruled states persists
Punjab FM termed exclusion of Congress-ruled states from GoM that decided GST rate cuts on Covid goods as 'preposterous'. Sitharaman said groups not constituted on political affiliations.
Defence
Under new policy, India could declassify military operations within 25 years unlike earlier
The new policy, formulated Saturday, mandates constitution of a committee headed by defence ministry's joint secretary and comprising representatives of Services among others.
China’s Wuhan story unravels as world’s finest, including from India, nail Covid lab-leak proof
The global hunt for where the virus behind pandemic came from shows science, democracy and a sense of inquiry can overcome politics, ideology and omerta codes.