Tag: Rajiv Gandhi
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Rise and fall of Gorbachev: My two and a half interviews
For 31 years since his fall Gorbachev must have suffered in silence the rank betrayal by his western interlocutors on what they promised him when he was in power. “I can now…
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Rushdie’s assailant: “My name is legion for we are many”
Salman Rushdie was dead right when he described the banning of the Satanic Verses in India nine days after its publication in London as “political football”.
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Soviet Union thirty years after collapse: Gains and losses
The collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago was a tragedy for half the world but frothed with possibilities for the other half which the West spilt, mistaking rampaging markets for…
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Rushdie not a problem for Muslims but for politicians
The Maulana from the Darul Uloom seminary at Deoband who threatened the Jaipur Literary Festival with disruption, in case Salman Rushdie participated, is only the latest in a long list of spoilsports…
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Tripoli Diary
The first meeting with Muammar Qaddaffi was the most dramatic. It was exactly a week after President Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of this city on April 15, 1986.
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Rajiv assassination mystery unsolved
Details revealed by Dr Subramanian Swamy in his book, Sri Lanka in Crisis: India’s Options (2007), revealed that an LTTE delegation had met Rajiv Gandhi on March 5, 1991. Another delegation met…