How a Movement Started by Netaji Bose is Celebrated as Republic Day
How a Movement Started by Netaji Bose is Celebrated as Republic Day Today, I just woke up and felt that the story of the Republic Day needs to be told and retold till it parade…
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When KK Nayar Refused Nehru’s Orders on Removing Moortis from Ram Janambhoomi
When KK Nayar Refused Nehru’s Orders on Removing Moortis from Ram Janambhoomi It was the night of December 22, 1949. After centuries of wait, Hindus reclaimed, though not legally, the Ram Janambhoomi site by installing…
Nehru’s Himalayan Blunders: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir
Nehru’s Himalayan Blunders: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir What did Mountbatten actually think of Nehru and Patel? Why did Nehru do such a poor job of defending India’s interests in Jammu and Kashmir including…
How Merciful Were British to Nehru and Harsh to Savarkar: The Contrasts
How Merciful Were British to Nehru and Harsh to Savarkar: The Contrasts Recently, Congress workers garlanded the statue of Swatantryaveer Savarkar with shoes, and blackened it. They openly boasted this act, without the slightest fear of reprisal in the…
A Magical Moment That Has Come Seventy Years Later
A Magical Moment That Has Come Seventy Years Later India will not be the same again after this election. It is a moment that came at the dawn of 15th August 1947 and was then…
Gandhi once Decided to Leave India and Settle Down in Pakistan!
Gandhi once Decided to Leave India and Settle Down in Pakistan! My learned friend Ananthakrishnan is brilliant when he discusses myriad topics from science to music. However, he is blind to facts and abandons reason…
Why the People who Created Pakistan Stayed Back in India
Why the People who Created Pakistan Stayed Back in India A bbc.com report titled ‘How Jinnah’s ideology shapes Pakistan’s identity’ mentions how ‘prior to the division of India in 1947, Hindus and Muslims had lived…
The Politics of Hate in the Present Day India
The Politics of Hate in the Present Day India – A Father Talks to his Daughter on Intolerance “Papa, is Modi a psychopath?” The question jolted me from my concentration. I was so engrossed in…
Andaman Cellular Jail: How Torture and Trauma of Freedom Fighters are Forgotten
Andaman Cellular Jail: How Torture and Trauma of Freedom Fighters are Forgotten Every year, on 15th August the Tricolor is hoisted by our Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort. It is an…
Call of Vande Mataram; Horrors of Unknown Women Freedom Fighters in Presidency Jail
Call of Vande Mataram; Horrors of Unknown Women Freedom Fighters in Presidency Jail It was the call of ‘Vande Mataram’. It was the call of Bharat Mata urging her sons and daughters to rise in…
