Politics
December 15, 2024
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Mani Shankar Aiyar makes big claim in new book: ‘Gandhis made and unmade my career; never called Modi a chaiwala’

Veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar insisted recently that he had never dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “chaiwala” — outlining the 2014 controversy in a new book. The diplomat-turned-politician also ruminated on his turbulent decades-long relationship with the Gandhi family — contending that they had both ‘made and unmade’ his political career. The senior […]

Politics
December 10, 2024
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Aditya Mukherjee’s forensic defence of the Nehruvian ‘Idea of India’

At a time when the forces of Hindutva are relentlessly denigrating Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to the freedom of our country and the first 17 years of nation-building in independent India, the historian Aditya Mukherjee brings welcome clarification to the debate largely by citing Nehru’s own words and expanding on their import in the present context. […]