Posted by: MI on: March 8, 2012
Acknowledging “mistakes” in the just concluded Assembly elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday indicated that the party would work out a plan to correct them. “This is something we will have to discuss within and decide. We have to sit down and look at the situation and results in every state and then together [...]
Posted by: MI on: March 3, 2012
Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a US church, drawing sharp reaction from his grandson and others. Gandhi was baptised by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), headquartered in Salt Lake City in Utah on March 27, 1996; the confirmation of which was completed on November 17, 2007 at Sao [...]
Posted by: MI on: February 23, 2012
40 Million Guns, India 2nd Only to U.S. in Gun Ownership India, the land of nonviolence, is no more a gun-shy nation as the country is now second in gun ownership in the world with more than 40 million guns. Rising incomes have made high-end weapons a new form of bling in the traditional peace-loving [...]
Posted by: MI on: November 23, 2011
Gandhi’s Girls India, 1942: In the end, the political demise of Mohandas Gandhi came with stunning speed. Until last week, he was the reversed Mahatma–the Great Soul– leader of 400 million Indians in the drive for independence from British colonial rule. With the election of the Labour Government in Britain increasingly likely, chances never seemed [...]
Posted by: MI on: November 21, 2011
It is a reminder of one of the saddest dates of Indian history — Jan 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. More than sixty years later, the first information report (FIR) of the incident has been displayed in a police station here “as a homage” to the father of the nation. The person behind [...]
Posted by: MI on: August 15, 2011
Utpal Dutt, the actor who played comedian in one of most memorable role in Hindi Cinema in Golmaal, was arrested on December 27, 1965 by the Government of West Bengal under the Preventive Detention Act. The Government of Bengal and India feared he was “subversive”. Why? Because he wrote a play called “Kallol” (Sound of [...]
