Government was watching Gandhiji's mood to know if he had cooled down.They found out from his letters and utterances that he was the same old firebrand and even more determined than before. The......
Godse's choice fitted with the Hindutva world view in which the assertion of masculinity, power and virility occupied the central position.His close association with Savarkar seems only to have......
'Dalits are not going to vote for the BJP in 2019.' IMAGE: Dalit leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani addresses the Hunkar rally in New Delhi, December 9, 2017. Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo......
Senior freedom fighter, social worker and former Union minister Dr Mohan Dharia passed away in Pune on Monday morning. He was 88. Dharia was a close associate of former Prime Minister Chandra......
Why did Mountbatten suddenly declare that the Partition of India would take place with inexplicable haste on August 15, 1947, almost a year ahead of schedule? Colonel Anil Athale (retd) explains......
The power to cause societal pain, at least to some segments of society, is intrinsic to the nature of technological innovation, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Whenever the talk about innovation bubbles up......
As a young scientist in what was then Bombay and is now called Mumbai, Desh Bandhu Gupta got frustrated by all the discoveries he couldn't pursue working for a British pharmaceutical company that......
Movie veteran Chandrashekhar, best known for films like Cha Cha Cha, Surang and Street Singer and playing the role of Arya Sumant on the television serial Ramayan, passed into the ages on June 16,......
To understand Rajesh Khanna's maniacal craze, one needed to have been born in the 1960s. What you see today in television re-runs is a mere rewind into shredded fading memories. It was sheer......
Would there have been an incomparable batsman named Sachin Tendulkar had Doordarshan not telecast Guide one summer afternoon?A fascinating excerpt from Abhishek Mukherjee and Joy Bhattacharjya's......