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TopicRam Manohar Lohia

Topic: Ram Manohar Lohia

‘I’m neither one to fear nor one to bow down’—Satyapal Malik, one of Modi govt’s fiercest critics

New Delhi: The former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satyapal Malik passed away Tuesday at 79. He had also served as the Governor of...

Was Ram Manohar Lohia a Hindi chauvinist or bilingual visionary? The language war rages on

Ram Manohar Lohia launched the ‘Angrezī Hatao’ movement in 1957. He wanted Hindi to be the language of the Union government.

See Ghazni, Ghori as plunderers, Razia, Sher Shah as ancestors—Lohia to Hindus, Muslims

On 3 October 1963, Ram Manohar Lohia spoke about the need for Hindus and Muslims unifying their perspective of the last 800 years of India's history.

When Ram Manohar Lohia blasted ‘pseudo-intellectuals’ for 175-page Five-Year Plan document

On 9 December 1963, Ram Manohar Lohia spoke in the Lok Sabha about the Rs 10,000 crore outlay that involved wasteful expenditure borne out of a desire to imitate the European way of life.

Ask Indians about socialists, they will name Bernie Sanders. Won’t know about Lohia, JP

You can’t take on BJP’s aggressive nationalism with an abstract internationalism; positive nationalism of Indian socialists can be the effective antidote.

‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party founder who kept allies & rivals guessing

Three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh breathed his last at a private hospital in Haryana's Gurugram Monday where he was under treatment since last week.

Embracing Congress & BJP, doling out laptops — how Lohiaites have strayed far from his ideology

Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav gained their political stripes with anti-Congressism but are now in the opposition fold alongside the party they once opposed.

Not BJP, Socialists like Lohia cancelled Nehru first

By ’90s, Nehru bashing was all the rage in Left-dominated academics. I was taught by teachers who dismissed Nehru’s urbanity, rationalism and secularism as ‘un-Indian’.

Rammanohar Lohia was right about China. And was neither jingoist nor idealist

Lohia proposed a comprehensive Himalayan policy and went beyond hawks-vs-doves in his national security approach.

Akhilesh must start building a new UP coalition. He can begin by saying sorry to Dalits

Winning Dalits over won’t be easy. But the good news for Akhilesh Yadav is that some of them are becoming disenchanted with Mayawati’s politics.

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Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.