Indira Gandhi

In 1901, during National Congress Convention Gandhi asked volunteers to not engage scavengers and when some opposition was there Gandhi himself initiated the process by cleaning his own night-soil. Mrs. Indira Gandhi herself had to clean night-soil during her stay at Sabarmati Ashram. Various organizations have been a part to end manual scavenging. There are legislative efforts,…

At a time Bharatavarsha was largely fragmented with Greek invaders still lurking around (left by Alexander), a brahmin scholar masterminded their expulsion and reinstated a powerful Indian empire using the military strength of Chandragupta Maurya. Mired in myths, the name Chanakya, invokes to this day, the image of a scheming strategist who used realpolitik as a necessary means to common good. Two millenniums later, the modern nation-state of India found itself in more dire conditions. Four…

Ministers. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Markel has been in office since 2005 and the United Kingdom had Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister from 1979-1990 and currently has Theresa May since 2016. India had their first woman prime minster in 1966, Indira Gandhi, who served until 1984. In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first woman prime minster by serving as Sri Lankan’s political leader. Way back in…

The murder of a famous individual such as a religious leader, politician, famous celebrity or a royal is known as an assassination. Regardless of the reason that provoked the assassinations, they all ended in the death of a public figure known by all and in most cases loved by the general public which is the reason so much attention is brought to their death in the first place. In some cases, the assassinations have caused chaos and even triggered civil wars. Assassinations can be tracked back…

In early 1980s, the temple became a center of conflict. The Indian government who was led by a man name Indira Gandhi and a militant movement who was led by a man named Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. In 1984, Gandhi sent the Indian Army which was called Operation Blue Star into the temple causing the deaths of over 1,000 militants, civilians and soldiers. There was damage towards the temple and the complex was…

When Pandit Nehru had died then a question arose ‘who will P.M. after Nehru?’ This play also echoes the same question, “After vichitravirya who?” the chorus repeatedly raises the question. Princess Vijaya stands for the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. After the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri there was political war between leaders about to choose P.M. The senior leaders of the Congress party at last chose…

Such respect we used to get. Now the whole atmosphere only has been spoiled. Ever since that Indira nationalized the banks”. - Such a long Journey Papiya Bhattacharjee notes that: “This novel is a strong support to the corpus of Parsi fiction in English.” The anxiety and the worry about the Parsi community expresses clearly and directly in the…

The Organ Donation movement: a new start A multimillionaire donates his organ; Kochouseph Chittilappilly, well known among entrepreneurs and the chairman and managing director of V-guard, recently came up with a novel idea to save the lives of people suffering from incurable kidney ailments. He has started a network of kidney donors and recipients called the Kidney Foundation of India. This new banking system reaches out to renal failure patients. Against the cases of kidney failure in Kerala…

The world is witness, in every century women emancipate prove her identity in the society and before the men. Time to time women fight for liberation and exploitation. A Rajasthani regional writer discusses about the identity of a woman; a girl asks her father what the identity of a women. He replies, the identity of a women comes after her marry. Thus, therefore the problems of women are the central theme of maximum woman writers. It is quiet natural to expose the problems of individual viewing…

sought to be projected by the BJP as if these were akin to American-style Presidential elections in a bipolar polity, one in which two personalities were often perceived to be bigger than the parties they represent. It was Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi, and the former won hands down” (Thakurta, 2014). Victory of Modi is been seen as boon for many corporate sector and stock market (Thakurta, 2014). “Economic policy reflected in the new government’s maiden budget focuses on favouring foreign…