In 'Singing Gandhi's India', Lakshmi Subramanian writes about why Gandhi insisted on supporting musical processions despite the controversy over them in 1930s.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak commanded the respect of his peers despite their political differences. Gandhi called him 'The maker of modern India' while Nehru described him as 'the father of the Indian revolution.
Arvind Kejriwal put together his revolutionary thoughts on what's wrong with India and how to fix it, in no more than 35,000 words or so, called Swaraj — which has since been accused of plagiarism.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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