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‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha
An excerpt from ‘The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha’, by Jairam Ramesh.
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July 19, 1969: Fifty years ago, India nationalised 14 private banks. This is how it was done
Jairam Ramesh’s biography of PN Haksar, who masterminded the nationalisation of banks announced by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Jairam Ramesh: Lessons from reorganising India's states – and why Uttar Pradesh needs to be divided
India needs a second States Reorganisation Commission. And it needs to split up its most populous state into smaller, manageable states.
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Trending
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘My son lost his job during demonetisation but at least it removed black money’
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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Indira Gandhi’s conscience keeper? ‘I could not become a ‘keeper’ of something which did not exist’
Extracts from a new biography of the former prime minister’s close aide, PN Haksar, who has been called her ‘moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972’.
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Behind the scenes at the Copenhagen, Cancun climate talks: How India helped ease the path to Paris
Jairam Ramesh explains.
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‘The Planning Commission did not keep India poor. It actually kept India together’: Jairam Ramesh
‘The gap between India and China widened astronomically not during the planning era but actually during the market reforms era.’
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Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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India’s so-called demographic dividend could easily end up becoming a nightmare: Jairam Ramesh
As India prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by the year 2024, it faces age-old problems.
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How Indira Gandhi dealt with the demand for a national law to ban cow slaughter (and other stories)
She refused permission to DLF for a hotel in Lutyens’ Delhi and then allowed it to the Tatas. And she sanctioned contentious dams on the Narmada.
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PN Haksar: The man who was Indira Gandhi's alter ego at the peak of her glory
She was almost in awe of the man with whom she enjoyed an unusually warm personal relationship – her daily moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972.
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The Reel
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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How Telangana and Seemandhra fought for Hyderabad (and how the battle was won)
Book excerpt: Jairam Ramesh, who was closely involved with the bifurcation, recounts the tussle for the capital.
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Narasimha Rao, the Sanskritist Prime Minister
As India embarked on its economic reforms, the Prime Minister stumped Parliament with his frequent use of Sanskrit.
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