Srinivasa Sastri, in so far as we have studied him in the foregoing pages, was a man who never could be stereotyped as either this or that type of votary of any particular political ideology or as anyone who could be easily swayed by any extreme notions of Nationalism, Patriotism or Liberalism. And nor wasContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-17): A streak of “raashtravaadi”? …”
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The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the mass leaders of the Indian National Congress who were at the forefront of the Freedom Struggle against British Colonial Rule all fell into roughly three broad but clear ideological groupings. They were all patriots devoted to the cause of Independence but they differed sometimes quite widely in their respectiveContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)”
Modi, the new Parliament building and Sengkol : a private debate between e-mail friends
A vigorous debate broke out this morning via exchange of emails between me and a couple of senior-citizen senior ranking retired ex-bureaucrats of the Government of India . I will not disclose their identities here as I value their privacy and also respect their right to their own views and convictions. But at the sameContinue reading “Modi, the new Parliament building and Sengkol : a private debate between e-mail friends”
Lata Mangeshkar, honored in life and death by a country that remains however reluctant to bestow the same upon her lifetime-hero .. What an irony!
The song of Lata Mangeshkar in the video-clip above is said to have moved Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to tears when he first listened to it. That should not really surprise any Indian heart…. The song even today does not fail to bring a choking lump to the throat of even theContinue reading “Lata Mangeshkar, honored in life and death by a country that remains however reluctant to bestow the same upon her lifetime-hero .. What an irony!”