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Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Amritpal Singh is apprehensive of losing his parliamentary seat. The Independent MP from Punjab is also in charge of Waris Punjab De, a pro-Khalistan group. He faces charges under the National Security Act and has been in jail since 2023. Recently, Amritpal approached ...
Finance Minister Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh and Bombay Chief Minister Morarji Ranchhodji Desai had a wildly different day on February 29, 1956. Deshmukh spent his day in Delhi, closeted with officials. A former civil servant and the first Indian to become the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor...
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has raised an issue that can rejuvenate our legislative institutions. While interacting with students on January 23, he said, “Why should there be a whip? Whip means you are curtailing expression, curtailing freedom, and subjecting your representative to servili...
In 1947, when we got our independence from the British, the country’s name became India. In the Constituent Assembly, our Constitution framers debated the name we would give ourselves as a republic. In addition to India, names that came up were Bharat, Bharat Varsha, Hindustan, Hind and Bharat...
Books that get straight to the point are refreshing. The author works hard to separate the grain from the chaff, letting the reader quickly reach the crux of the matter. India that is Bharat: An Introduction to the Constitutional Debates by P Rajeeve is one such book.
Rajeeve is current...