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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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Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world
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Why are Sikhs abroad more pro-Khalistan than community members living in India?
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Watch: Roger Federer gets on the wrong train with Trevor Noah in Swiss tourism advertisement
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Is ‘glass skin’ achievable? A dermatologist answers this and other skincare questions in a new book
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Watch: Men on motorbike try to snatch mobile phone from woman filming video on Bengaluru street
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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: Men on motorbike try to snatch mobile phone from woman filming video on Bengaluru street
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Watch: Cricketers Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal enact comedy scene from popular Malayalam movie
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Watch the first litter of cheetah cubs born in India in over 70 years
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Watch: Pal the German Shepherd takes charge as honorary mayor for Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada
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Watch: Journalist Nishant Shekhar hilariously mimics everyday conversations in Indian newsroom
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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.
Jairam Ramesh
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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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‘Dead Ringers’ trailer: David Cronenberg’s acclaimed film is now a series
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‘Mrs Undercover’ trailer: Radhika Apte toggles between housework and espionage
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‘Bholaa’ review: High on action and colour filters
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Watch: The trailer of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ part 2 is out
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‘Elemental’ trailer: Fire teams up with water in animated film about elements of nature
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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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