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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicVijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Topic: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Motilal Nehru opposed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s affair with Syed Hossain. Even Gandhi intervened

TCA Raghavan’s ‘Circles of Freedom’ chronicles the story of three young Muslim men and two fierce women whose paths intertwined during the struggle for Independence.

New book brings India’s foremost female diplomat to life

Published by Penguin India, ‘Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit' by Manu Bhagavan will be released on 28 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

‘She’s almost a ghost’. First biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit faces half-empty hall

The Delhi launch of Manu Bhagavan’s biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit focused on her largely ‘erased’ legacy as a freedom fighter, diplomat, and politician.

When Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was picked up by police for attempted assassination of Mussolini

In ‘Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’, Manu Baghavan provides a throughly researched account of Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister and how her story is intertwined with that of India.

‘Please smoke to keep me company’ – What a tired Mao told Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in China

In ‘The Fractured Himalaya’, former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao writes how in the India-China relationship, the past shadows the present.

Saeeda Bano, first woman Urdu news reader who got marriage offers and ‘go to Pakistan’ letters

Saeeda Bano landed the job of news broadcaster for All India Radio’s Urdu service with some help from Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a keen supporter of women’s rights.

Not just Nehru, even sister Vijaya Lakshmi had strong reasons to decline UNSC permanent seat

Nehru declined UNSC offers because ensuing entanglements would likely have rendered India a muted marionette in Cold War.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru’s younger sister who slammed Indira for Emergency

18 August is the birth anniversary of Pandit, a freedom fighter, an accomplished diplomat and politician. 

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

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.