‘This book is not just Mohan and Muhammad. It's Mohan, Muhammad, and Meghnad,’ said Kapish Mehra, managing director, Rupa Publications at the launch event on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, people had condemned the removal of Jinnah’s portraits from Independence Day campaigns. PTI had called it a ‘direct attack on the foundation of Pakistan’.
Sharing an X post, the prime minister called the Partition a 'tragic chapter' of Indian history, and urged the public to strengthen the harmony in the country.
Ambedkar regarded both Gandhi and Jinnah as suffering from ‘colossal egotism’, who made Indian politics a matter of their ‘personal quarrel’ and brought it to a standstill.
On Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s 148th birth anniversary, a look at how teenage years in London took him to Lincoln’s Inn, Shakespeare, and Savile Row—and inspired new ambitions.
Arif Zakaria, who plays Jinnah in Freedom At Midnight, makes it a point to stumble over the Urdu speech scenes. After all, Jinnah was not comfortable with the language.
Analysts, however, feel commemoration of Jinnah's 76th death anniversary was a one-off, but admit that New Delhi and Dhaka will have to take calculated steps going forward.
Till Hasina’s ouster in August this year, an event observing Jinnah’s death anniversary and public proclamations praising him would have been unthinkable.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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