He said throughout India the "name of Sonachura and Nandigram will be uttered whenever people will talk about brutalities committed by a state government."
'I enjoyed my fiery exchanges with Akshay Kumar, who was extremely gracious and generous when the camera was not rolling. I enjoyed locking horns with him in court.'
The Communists demonstrated that they are tyrants just like the Tsars.
On the heels of her discharge by a court in a 10-year old criminal case, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti will launch a 16-day 'Tirange Yatra' from Hubli in Karnataka to Jallianwallah Bagh in Punjab on September 10
'This anti-Muslim narrative is happening only in the minds of those who are always standing on the other side.'
Terming the incident as 'horrific', the Aam Aadmi Party hit out at the Centre by drawing a comparison with the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre, whose centenary is being observed on Saturday.
The 2019 election gives the Indian public the same choice: Between growth and oligarchs (or, in our case, dynasts and crony capitalists). If we chose wisely, well and good. If not, well, we have the Nehruvian Rate of Growth and massive corruption to fall back on. In a large sense, it is a choice between the India of the Lutyens elites and the Bharat of the real citizen, says Rajeev Srinivasan.
When Nehru came in active contact with Gandhi 100 years ago, he was a Westernised rationalist while Gandhi was deeply soaked in the Indian ethos and spirituality, notes Rasheed Kidwai.
Modi's absence from an event to mark the centenary of a definitive moment in Indian history puzzles Utkarsh Mishra.
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