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Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's statue at India Gate. Along with it, he inaugurated the rejuvenated Central Avenue that the government has renamed Kartavya Path. The PM's office stated, "It symbolises a shift from er...
On Thursday, we discussed Midnight’s Borders by Suchitra Vijayan. It was apt, as the day was International Democracy Day. And this book that we had all read, pushed our book club readers to examine the anomalies in our democracy.
“We behave like an empire- specially in our b...
The sign that a political crisis in a state is reaching a critical stage is when parties start moving their legislators to resorts. Earlier this week, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and the Indian National Congress flew their MLAs to Raipur. The two parties constitute the governing alliance in...
In May 1952, Members of Parliament (MPs) of the first Lok Sabha assembled to elect its Speaker.
The Congress candidate was GV Mavalankar, who had been in the Speaker’s chair since 1946. Opposing him was Shankar Shantaram More, a newcomer to Parliament. The election was a formality as Congre...
The colonial mindset in the country has been the subject of recent debate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to it in his Independence Day address. He urged the citizens to shed the colonial mindset and called for a national effort to make the country a developed nation by 2047, when w...