Category: History
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But for Atal Behari Vajpayee, Kurdish Iraq was nearly ours
Hard to believe, but Mosul, currently in the news, would have been ours today had Atal Behari Vajpayee not played spoil sport.
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The launch that WAS for “1962: A War that WASN’T”
“If this book, half a century after the events, can even now make us pause long enough and look at ourselves in the mirror, it would have achieved its objective. At the…
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Subhash Chandra Bose got us Independence
What political philosophy Subhash desired or would have pursued is a matter of conjecture. The moot question that the IB documents pose is as to why the family of Subhash was kept…
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But for China!
But for the 1962 India-China war, there would have been unbridled propensity to couch criminalization as political revolution. Even now, communists use all their leverages in India and abroad to dub their…
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Nehru hated Indian Army!
Only two days back, a diplomat turned politician, whose only claim to fame is fealty to one particular family, said in an interview to a TV channel that an Army Chief, with…
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India’s diversity is engineered
For those who watched the oath taking ceremony in the Lok Sabha recently, there was some great learning to ponder. The lesson questions the very basis of politics of linguistic chauvinism, and…