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Xi’s initiatives

Conscious of China’s cultural “soft power” and keen to enhance it, Xi Jinping, within a year of becoming President, launched two major diplomatic init

Shout-show TV

On the need for journalists to maintain the quality of public discourse on politics in political talk shows on television.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with C. Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Patel the non-Bismarck

It was Lord Mountbatten who went out of his way to secure the accession of the princely states to India, not Sardar Patel, though the latter played a

New Delhi, 22/01/2013: Pictures of Quit India movement. Courtesy: Gandhi Smriti

AFSPA: Licence to kill

Politicians, by focussing the discussion on militancy, have successfully deflected attention from the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a colonial reli

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU. PHOTO DT: 5, APR. 1952.(THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY).

Dynasty in democracy

In democracies governed by a dynasty, the leader is the prime fundraiser with control over the party machine and sees to it that the leading members r

On the brink

The relations between India, China and Pakistan are poised on the cusp of complex and shifting equations. But India seems bent on repeating the mistak

The Indian Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and the Sri Lankan President Mr. Jayewardene sign the historic Indo-Sri Lanka accord in the country's capital, Colombo.

July, 1987.

India’s sordid record

India’s relations with Sri Lanka will heal only if there is a sincere realisation of past mistakes and of the grave damage that India inflicted on a h

Mr. Nehru at the kindergarten of the China Welfare Institute, Shanghai, in November 1954. Photo: The Hindu Archives

Nehru phobia

The Nehru phobia will last as long as the battle for India’s soul rages.

B-08, AHM-070901, SEPTEMBER 07, 2009: Ahmedabad: Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi and former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel along with other RSS leaders salute to the RSS flag during the three day visit of RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat in Ahmedabad on Monday.PTI Photo

Soldiers of the Swastika

The RSS’ current fascist rhetoric is not surprising given its historical links to fascism in the 1930s, which have been established convincingly using

RSS Chief M.S. Golwalkar

Godseites’ day out

The Sangh Parivar has always been ambivalent about Gandhi and felt embarrassed if asked to denounce Godse.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya at the Colmbia Studios, London, when he spoke on disarmament and the devastating effects of war.

Portrait of a propagandist

Madan Mohan Malaviya played a key role in the construction of a politicised Hindu identity.

The Union Home Minister, Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri accompanied by Rajasthan's Chief Minister, Mr. Mohan Lal Sukhadia, visited the Chinese internment camp at Deoli on June 9, 1963.

Persecution of Chinese Indians

The least the Indian state can do is offer an apology for sending about 3,000 people of Chinese descent to a detention camp in the Rajasthan desert af