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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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Why many young Muslims are leaving India
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Watch: 75 musicians perform the entire song whose first stanza is India’s national anthem
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‘Mind your language’: Bar Council of India rebukes advocate Prashant Bhushan for ‘ridiculing’ SC
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Opinion: Pakistan has learnt little from India and India has taken the worst lessons from Pakistan
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How Indian newspapers reported Independence and Partition in 1947
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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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Watch: Arvind Kejriwal’s speech accidentally played at BJP’s ‘tiranga yatra’ in Gujarat
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Watch: When former Pakistan PM Imran Khan praised India for not bowing to the West
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Gateway of India to Howrah Bridge: Monuments, structures, buildings lit up for Independence Day
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Watch: Indian flag unfurled 30 kilometres above the surface of the earth to mark Independence Day
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Watch: Young refugees in India sing ‘Jana Gana Mana’ with Grammy Award-winner Ricky Kej
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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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Does Netflix series ‘The Sandman’ make your every comic-loving dream come true?
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‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ trailer: Fawad Khan leads reboot of a Pakistani classic
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Start the week with a film: Get a much-needed dose of ‘Gandhigiri’ with ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’
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‘Darlings’ director Jasmeet K Reen on her heroines: ‘They are simple, scared, a bit off’
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‘Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons’ review: Jeffrey Epstein and the dark side of marketing
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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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