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She and Sanjay had changed the political and administrative morality of the country for all time to come.
Gujarat has presented India with several mythological and historical heroes, including Lord Krishna, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel and Dhirubhai Ambani.
estate including Prabhu Chawla. He was yet to take charge of the Indian Express. Rayan Karanjiwala, an advocate, and Bhurelal the indomitable bureaucrat with a Don Quixotic streak, had filled in some of the gaps.
believe that one can be a staunch Hindu without hating a non-Hindu fellow Indian. Hindutwa and Bharatiyatwa are not synonymous.
was always attracted to the Hindu organisation out of the faith that only it could unify the fractured Hindu society by fighting against the social discriminations as old as the Vedas (Purusha Sukta etc).
betrays a sign of half knowledge about vedic way of life
had taught them the tricks of vote-bank accountancy by correlating caste with right social programme and economic policy.
a claim of granting awareness
M. K. Narayanan, the Director, had revived the aspects of ‘operational approach’ in dealing with the Punjab problem. This was not an innovation. This
the main officer in ib during punjab problem
Kalyan Rudra headed the Punjab Operations Cell.
another officer associated with punjab problem
Indira Congress stalwarts like Zail Singh, Buta Singh and Sanjay Gandhi were responsible for bringing Jarnail Singh to the centre stage.
important
another underground outfit launched by the Union Home Minister. That was the height of treachery-to Rajiv Gandhi and a small fry like me, if not the nation.
Buta Singh role
Charles Sobhraj, the celebrity killer and chameleon, and Maqbool Butt, the JKLF leader, who was later, hanged. At the height of Akali Dal agitation I had the opportunity of interacting with Prakash Singh Badal and G.S. Tohra inside this very jail.
major political personalities
They forgot that the tired and greedy Congress leaders of 1947 as eagerly sought partition, as it was, by the suspicious and bigoted Muslim leadership.
comment on gandhi family
coercive diplomacy
days Nehru had fallen in love with the Switzerland of the East during his honeymoon with Kamala Nehru.
reason of nehru infatuation with kashmir
Punjab was not an integrated part of Pakistan’s proxy war; it was a diversionary tactics that exploited India’s self-created fault line.
The padatik of Indian politics, Chandrashekhar, was tampered in the faked fire of socialism and vainly shaped on the anvil of Jayprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, the gurus of Indian socialist movement. The molecules of mundane politics in him did not undergo significant change even after his passage through the socialist mill. He nursed a few unique ambitions: grabbing the Prime Ministerial seat at least for one Arabian Night, unaccounted wealth and hollow high sounding moral postures.
note on chandershekhar
No one should forget that ideas of Bande Mataram movement, Tilak’s and Lajpat Rai’s contribution, the Arya Samaj, Hindu Mahasabha movement and the RSS activism had aimed at promoting and protecting the Hindu identity of Bharatvarsha. These ideas could not be smothered to extinction by the apartheid policy of secularism and ism-less communist protagonists.
a historical note
June 1989 Palampur (HP) resolution of the BJP on Ram Janambhoomi the Sangh Parivar and its affiliates did not look back. It made
Ram Janambhoomi
Uma Bharti and Gobindachariya had, in the meantime, suffered severe emotional stresses.
uma and govindacharya case
worst hunter-gatherer of Indian
Hindu-Muslim communalism is as old as the history of Muslim occupation of India. But the process of assimilation was characterised by rapid social cohesion.
an historic observation.
tools of mass hypnosis.
pithy statement
Dhirubhai was acclimatised to the officials in Delhi in other contexts;
how was ambani associated with 1993 blasr?
his feet by the glitters
deities called politicians and bureaucrats.
government departments rest of the 50% human
