The Bharat Ratna recipient passed away on February 6 this year. But her melodious songs and life stories will always inspire ...

Tamil Nadu governor R.N. Ravi on Thursday accused Chief Minister M.K. Stalin of “stubbornly refusing” to observe the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at the Gandhi Madapam in Chennai as suggested ...

Romain Rolland, a French Nobel laureate and internationalist, wrote significant biographies of Indian spiritual leaders ...

A Rediff Special to mark Netaji's 128th birth anniversary ... Nehru Correspondence 1921-1948, 2011, pages 70-71) The reference is to the Calcutta session of Congress where Gandhi's choice was ...

The first Gandhi Memorial Museum in India was established in Madurai in 1959. Inaugurated by Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru, it is the only one in South India and one of the seven now in Delhi, Mumbai ...

Robert Oppenheimer, to cite the Bhagavad Gita’s stunning imagery of Death by the light and heat ... in what was then Madras State, and with Jawaharlal Nehru and C. Rajagopalachari present ...

January 11 marks the death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri ... before becoming Prime Minister in 1964 after the death of PM Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964). 2. His childhood name was Lal Bahadur ...

When one thinks of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, two figures most readily come to mind: Mahatma Gandhi, the immensely popular and “saintly” frail pacifist, and ...

New Delhi: A number of artists and scholars have issued an open letter seeking the release of Umar Khalid, a student activist and former research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Kishor had been in a fast-unto-death since 2 January ... an emerging academic from Jawaharlal Nehru University and youth leader of the Samajwadi Party. “They can also bring in money.” ...

On his 59th death anniversary, we honor his legacy as the Father of Indian Nuclear Programme. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, regarded as the father of India's nuclear programme, was instrumental in ...