Language,” writes Sumanto, “is not static; it breathes, it grows, it adapts.” This is especially true of English, which has ...

Nehru's Private Papers included letters to Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, ...

On the reading list this week is a sweeping history of a young India and a portrait of one of the country’s first public ...

Emergency, Nayantara Sahgal, Nehru's niece, faced censorship for criticising Indira Gandhi's regime but continued to speak ...

Sneh Bhargava, AIIMS New Delhi's only woman director, was called upon to treat Gandhi after she was shot in 1984.

Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

India’s Emergency silenced press freedom overnight, prompting newspapers to publish blank editorials in protest. This ...

Yadav has been widely known as one of the key faces of Jungle Raj in Bihar. A BJP leader and Lalu Yadav’s close friend Rajan ...

Bihar is considered the cradle of political movement that culminated in the imposition of Emergency in India on June 25, 1975 ...

On the night of June 25, 1975, as darkness fell on Indian democracy with the proclamation of Emergency, another light was ...

Their recent books on the Constitution approach it through political lens. It makes the comparison interesting as their ...

The concept of Bharat Mata was visualised for the first time around 120 years ago when the renowned Bengali artist, Abanindranath Tagore, brother of writer and ...