INDIRA GANDHI: Portrait of an authoritarian patriot

INDIRA GANDHI A RARE GLIMPS Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her bodyguards on this day 25 years ago. Looking at the legacy of India’s most controversial and best-known politician. In the summer of 1965, Indira Gandhi was thinking of shifting base from Delhi to London. She was then serving as a...

October 31st, 2009 | WORLD | Read More

AMERICA HAS ITS ROOTS IN GANDHI: President Obama

A VISION OF SMILING INDIA As the world celebrates International Day of non-violence, US President Barack Obama on Thursday said America has its “roots in the India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement,” Obama said on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma...

October 2nd, 2009 | WORLD | Read More

MAHATMA GANDHI: India plans to buy his Africa home

GANDHI JI IN 1906 India’s coal ministry says it plans to buy a house in South Africa where independence hero Mahatma Gandhi lived. The building would be turned into a memorial, officials said. The house was put up for sale in July after the owner said she failed to find an institution interested...

August 6th, 2009 | WORLD | Read More

INDIA’S SHIFT IN POLICY: Budget 2009

India’s Union budget 2009 represents a discernible shift to the left by India’s Congress party following its election win in May. Budgets in India are much more than statements of financial accounts. They are important pronouncements on the political economy of one of the world’s fastest...