Time Has Come For Women's Reservation Bill

Women politicians bring to politics and policy a sensitivity that most of their male counterparts, at least until a generation back, lacked. IMAGE: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi prior to attending......

Why J B Kripalani needs to be remembered

In an era when the misguided youth of today are trying to build political careers by subscribing to divisive ideologies, they need to look to independent thinking icons such as Acharya Kripalani,......

The time to quit India had come

Historian Mridula Mukherjee narrates how the Quit India movement swept across the country even in the absence of its leaders, convincing the British that they could no longer continue to rule......

Gujral was sophisticated, gracious in his dealings

Neerja Chowdhury remembers a gentleman politician, an unusual prime minister. Four days before he would have turned 93, Inder Kumar Gujral, who steered the country as prime minister at the head of......