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View: Diversity, national unity and democracy are goals that mutually reinforce one anotherIndians are divided, too, by the degree to which they have admittance to a culture of learning, or to a culture of taking on risk to genera...
View: Ram Mandir doesn’t negate Constitution, it links antiquity to presentThe difference between the reactions to the 1992 demolition and last Wednesday’s bhoomipuja would indicate that India has changed very sign...
View: Modi 2.0 looks set to fulfil poll promises, Covid crisis or notFor the ruling BJP in particular, the beginning of temple construction would have been a grand backdrop to the commemoration of the first y...
View: Modi's contribution to Indian politics is as impactful as Nehru'sSo deep ranging is the wider societal impact of Moditva that he can only be compared with Nehru.
View: India’s socio-political narrative has changed to BJP’s advantagePrejudice towards minorities, chiefly Muslims, is not a recent phenomenon. Divisions have existed since ages.
How Tipu Sultan was the original tech innovatorTipu created iron tubes filled with gunpowder, hoisted them on flags or bamboo poles and mounted them on ramps for better accuracy and rang...
The Jawaharlal Nehru you don’t know!Crackpot stories about Nehru have circulated for decades – for instance, former RSS chief K S Sudarshan has claimed that Nehru killed Gandh...
Top job at Nehru memorial to go to eminent scholar with proven record on Nehruvian studiesThe NMML was recently in news over debates on its revamp plans that arguably amounted to dilution of Nehru’s legacy at the eponymous instit...
Website launch to mark end of Nehru birth anniversary celebrationsYear-long 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Jawaharlal Nehru, organised by Congress, culminates tomorrow with the party set to launch...
Narendra Modi government out to elimnate Nehruvian legacy of tolerance: Sonia GandhiSonia Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of posing a threat to the Indian ethos of pluralism and trying to wipe out the Nehr...
Congress' think-tank RGICS to host Left scholars at conclave on liberal valuesRGICS is hosting the conference, which would have an eclectic mix of historians, writers, journalists, activists and plain and simple Congr...
Our culture wars are more a clash of lifestyles than ideasThere is a culture war raging in India today. Alas, it is only nominally a clash of ideas and more about conflicting lifestyles.
Nehru Memorial Museum: A story of India from Raj to SwarajNehru Memorial is caught in a controversy now with government wanting to make the memorial more inclusive and more reflective of independen...
History Congress discusses Nehruvian era and inequality in historyThe choice of topics highlighted by the Congress and their contrast with the new Hindutva-oriented focus on history in policy was noted.
Historians praise Jawaharlal Nehru at annual Indian History Congress Association meetThe meet had made news when Vice President Hamid Ansari, in his inaugural address, criticized the idea of a homogenous nation state.
Discovery of new India: Congress and BJP have a riot of words over Jawaharlal NehruNehru’s 125th birth anniversary eve turned into a bad-tempered battle, with BJP & Congress trading barbs, accusing each other of historical...
CPI leader D Raja slams Subramanian Swamy's remarksCPI leader D Raja today termed as "outrageous" BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's reported statement that books of Nehruvian historians should ...
Narendra Modi government trying to resurrect Deen Dayal Upadhyay's legacyCBSE held a nationwide writing competition in the name of 'Expression Series' about the life and times of "Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi model: A break from 'Nehruvian Consensus'?The second is inclusive democracy, adequate representation of all — a celebration rather than a discomfort with diversity.
- Congress history blames Indira Gandhi for UP loss
The Congress's history, written by a group of experts, has blamed Indira Gandhi's policies for the party's collapse in Uttar Pradesh.