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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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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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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: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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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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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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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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