Topic: Jawaharlal Nehru
G.V. Mavalankar — the man who Nehru dubbed the ‘father of Lok Sabha’
Nicknamed 'Dadasaheb,' Mavalankar was known for his neutrality and being a ‘non-party man’, as he began defining the role of a Speaker in 1937.
When Nehru was asked what India’s stance towards tribals should be, he said ‘humility’
In ‘Being Adivasi’, Meenakshi Natarajan writes that Nehru believed we should neither consider tribal beliefs inferior nor impose our rituals and thoughts on them.
Nehru was way ahead of his time. Seeing him through a 20/20 lens is wrong
Nehru defined the spirit of India that shaped the nationalism of its people. Not the small-minded, vulgar and bigoted version we see on display today.
‘Unprecedented’, ‘lacking etiquette’, Cong hits out at BJP for ‘skipping’ LS event for Nehru
MP Jairam Ramesh tweeted senior BJP leaders were absent from Lok Sabha event to celebrate Jawaharlal Nehru's birth anniversary. Some BJP leaders, including PM Modi, tweeted their tributes to Nehru.
The ghosts of Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee are back. Modi’s India is reliving 1951
In 'Nehru: The Debates that Defined India', Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain highlight the former PM's encounters with his contemporaries.
The spirit of my great-grandfather, a shareholder of Air India, is now resurrected
By resurrecting Air India, the present dispensation has finally undone the mistake that we can attribute to Nehru or his advisors.
The ICHR poster is Hindutva institutionalising pettiness. Trying to erase Nehru is futile
The Narendra Modi dispensation has taken this hatred to a pathological level because of the deep personal inferiority complex vis-a-vis Nehru.
Hindutva founders did little for azadi. Hijacking history in ICHR poster is what BJP can do
Excising Nehru from India’s freedom struggle is rationally impossible; omitting him from an ICHR poster is the best they can do.
Nehru present in future ‘Azadi Mahotsav’ posters, says ICHR after Congress slams ‘omission’
In an ICHR poster celebrating India's 75th year of independence, Jawaharlal Nehru was conspicuously missing while Gandhi, Bose and Savarkar were featured.
Would Nehru have more Twitter followers than Modi? Decoding personality traits of Indian PMs
In ‘Narcissus or Machiavelli’, Nishant Uppal writes that American scholars have established personality-behaviour linkages for US presidents, but none exist for Indian PMs.
Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?
Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.