epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

Indira did not consult Kamaraj, the Congress President, about the ‘strong medicine’ of devaluation, knowing that he was vehemently opposed to it. As were a number of cabinet ministers when ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Vasant Moon [Moon, Vasant]

Chapter 15 POLITICS AND PIGEONS In 1942 the freedom struggle reached its height with the Quit India movement. Picketing closed down colleges and schools; police patrols increased. The boys of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld [Lelyveld, Joseph]

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Raman, B. [Raman, B.]

CHAPTER XIV Geneva And Bofors I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Patwant Singh

Coping with his women must have been no less daunting a task for Ranjit Singh than dealing with the many adversaries he faced during his eventful reign. They numbered literally ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Rafia Zakaria [Zakaria, Rafia]

AUGUST 14–17, 1988 We always woke early on Independence Day to the sound of the flag flapping proudly against the post we had attached to the upstairs balcony a solid ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash, Mike]

My wife was still sleeping over the grave of the water carriers unconscious of what was doing or to be done. (She has often since declared that she never had ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...