Tag: Indira Gandhi

Sharma hits out at Modi for insulting Indira Gandhi

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Saturday, taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a comment on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, asked him to to stop “insulting” former heads of government. He also noted that “she would not have said anything to her ministers in presence of any other person”. “Stop insulting former …

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December 17, 2016

Demonetisation should have been done in 1971: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly defended demonetisation, a decision he said should have been taken in 1971 when Indira Gandhi was heading the government. “We needed to do it in 1971. We have caused huge losses by not doing this since 1971,” Modi told BJP MPs, lashing out at the Congress for not …

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December 16, 2016

When Castro gave a bear hug to a surprised Indira Gandhi

Fidel Castro, the iconic Cuban revolutionary leader who died on Saturday, will be remembered in India for his close association with the Nehru-Gandhi family and especially his “sisterly” ties with former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – which he sealed with a bear hug during the Non-Aligned Summit in New Delhi in 1983. At the …

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November 26, 2016

When Castro gave a bear hug to a surprised Indira Gandhi

Fidel Castro, the iconic Cuban revolutionary leader who died on Saturday, will be remembered in India for his close association with the Nehru-Gandhi family and especially his “sisterly” ties with former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – which he sealed with a bear hug during the Non-Aligned Summit in New Delhi in 1983. At the …

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November 26, 2016

When Castro gave a bear hug to a surprised Indira Gandhi

Fidel Castro, the iconic Cuban revolutionary leader who died on Saturday, will be remembered in India for his close association with the Nehru-Gandhi family and especially his “sisterly” ties with former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – which he sealed with a bear hug during the Non-Aligned Summit in New Delhi in 1983. At the …

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November 26, 2016

Nehruvian legacy~II

Referring to Indira Gandhi, Ernest Barker wrote: “Nehru trusted his daughter’s instincts and her intelligence. We may never fully know in how many or which matters he, as Prime Minister, was influenced by Indira Gandhi’s advice. We do know that she gave him the wrong advice to dismiss the first Communist government of Kerala in …

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November 22, 2016

My first conversation with Indira Gandhi was in French: Sonia

Sonia said that she had declined to meet Indira Gandhi a little while before she and Rajiv Gandhi entered the city.

November 21, 2016

My first conversation with Indira Gandhi was in French: Sonia

Sonia said that she had declined to meet Indira Gandhi a little while before she and Rajiv Gandhi entered the city.

November 21, 2016

I learnt Indian culture, political lessons from Indira Gandhi: Sonia

Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appreciated the efforts of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and said that she learnt about the culture of India and political lessons from her. “It is from her that I learnt about India, about its culture, about its values. It is from her that I imbibed my earliest political lessons,” Sonia …

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November 19, 2016

Censor board clears film on Indira Gandhi”s assassination

Censor board clears film on Indira Gandhi''s assassination

August 8, 2016

Kuldip Nayar gets Ramnath Goenka Lifetime Achievement Award

Nayar is a former editor of The Indian Express

November 24, 2015

Emergency was a curse on India: Kuldip Nayar

“103 journalists signed and passed a resolution on 28 June 1975 to condemn press censorship, but fear over took them and they caved in," recalls Nayar

June 25, 2015