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TopicPranab Mukherjee

Topic: Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee book launch had a glaring absence — Congress leaders

Many Congress leaders were invited to the launch of Sharmistha Mukherjee’s book, but only P Chidambaram showed up. She chalked it up to her father's 'honest opinion' of them.

Pranab Mukherjee’s accent was mocked by elite Delhi. ‘Keep a tutor’, Indira Gandhi told him

In 'Pranab: My Father', Sharmistha Mukherjee recalls how the former President's thick Bengali accent became the butt of the jokes in Lutyens' Delhi.

‘Opposition’ to Pranab Mukherjee’s speech at RSS event got me writing regularly, says Manmohan Vaidya

At the launch of his 'We and the World Around', RSS joint general secretary Vaidya says that through this collection of his articles he talks about India and its position in the world.

‘PM India never had’—Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter, colleagues remember master negotiator

Remembering Pranab, a panel discussion organised by the Pranab Mukherjee Legacy Foundation on 8 January in Delhi, paid tribute to the late Indian President.

Sharmistha Mukherjee ‘quits active politics’, is last member of Pranab family to leave Congress

Late president Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter says quitting active politics, but not Congress party. Her brother Abhijit left the party in July to join TMC.

Pranab Mukherjee was visionary, made remarkable contributions to India’s progress: PM Modi

Speaking at the Pranab Mukherjee memorial lecture, Modi said it was only apt to recall Mukherjee's reverence for democratic values as India celebrates its 75th year of independence.

Pranab Mukherjee’s ex-MP son Abhijit set to quit Congress and join Trinamool today

Abhijit Mukherjee, who first became an MP in 2012 from his father’s seat in Bengal, had met Mamata’s nephew and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek in June. 

How retrospective restraint prevents Pranab Mukherjee from saying he was a winner or loser

‘The Presidential Years’ avoids real political issues, refuses to go into details, hides a lot more than it tells, and is therefore a big let-down.

Pranab Mukherjee’s wilderness years

Mukherjee has been bewilderingly diplomatic in the second volume of his memoirs that chronicles his sidelining and ostracism in the Rajiv Gandhi era.

Boris Johnson’s R-Day no-show a good time to debate if Soviet-style military spectacle is needed

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On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.