indica News Bureau- The attack on the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, in Pakistan has triggered protests among members of all communities in India. While several Sikh groups were to protest outside Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi on January 4, to condemn the attack, several Muslim organizations also condemned the […]
Justice Markandey Katju- In the video on YouTube titled ‘Remembering Benazir Bhutto’ Raza Rumi, whom I otherwise respect for his liberal and secular views, and his colleague in nayadaur.tv Ailia Zehra made wholly inane comments on the 12th death anniversary of late Benazir Bhutto which I did not expect from a senior journalist of his kind. […]
IANS- Just a few hours before she collapsed and died, former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had tweeted her thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for revoking Article 370 on Jammu and Kashmir. “Thank you Prime Minister. Thank you very much. I was waiting to see this day in my lifetime.” That was her last […]
IANS- Proving exit polls right, the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appeared set to retain power as its candidates alone led in 294 of the 541 Lok Sabha seats with its allies faring equally well across the country, stunning the opposition. The BJP made stunning inroads in West Bengal where its […]
The INDIA bloc on Sunday launched its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections at a mega rally in the country’s financial hub Mumbai, unanimously calling upon the people to defeat the BJP to save democracy and the Constitution. At the rally at the iconic Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, organized on the conclusion of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, leaders of several INDIA bloc parties recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement in 1942, saying that the time has come to work together to relieve the country from the BJP.
The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been running an exhibition titled ‘I Will Meet You Yet Again’ that showcases contemporary Sikh Art form. The exhibition was inaugurated January 28 will run until May 26, 2024, and has displayed more than 40 contemporary paintings, textiles, soundscapes, poetry, and digital media that highlight the Sikh understanding of “home.”
Today marks the 102nd birth anniversary of India’s pioneering reformist Prime Minister P V Narsimha Rao, with whose five-year tenure about half of my posting in New Delhi as a journalist coincided. During that posting I met him many times.
Martin Luther King Jr. was only 19 when Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. He would later visit India in 1959 and be forever transformed to bend the arc of history with the ensuing Civil Rights movement in the United States. Inspired by Gandhi’s satyagraha- ‘truth force’ doctrine, he preached non-violent resistance that eventually changed laws aimed at ending racial discrimination and restoring human rights. In 1964 at the age of 34, Martin Luther King became the youngest man to ever be conferred the Nobel Peace Prize.
I worked as a journalist in New Delhi between 1989 and 1998 which means a majority of my posting coincided with the tenure of the late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. He took over on June 21, 1991, and left office on May 16, 1996.
Elections are due in 2022 for state assemblies in eight states in India, including the most important state Uttar Pradesh, for which elections are due in February 2022. Parliamentary elections are due in 2024.
Many leaders of the Congress Party have telephoned me recently and said they are getting abuses by the public because of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi who are clinging on to the leadership of the party, although the mother and son have almost demolished it and made it defunct and nonexistent (as indeed the recent election results in 4 states and a union territory have shown).
Sonia Dhami- Sonia Dhami is trustee, Sikh Foundation; president, ArtandTolerance.com; and commissioner, Fine Arts, City of Cupertino, California. The views expressed are her own. “FIRST BATTLE FOR INDIA’S FREEDOM WON (.) CONGRATULATIONS.” These are the words of Mahatma Gandhi congratulating Baba Kharak Singh, president of the Sikh Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee (S.G.P.C) in January 1922, via […]
Sandeep Bamzai &Deepak Sharma- Top of the line legal eagle, Congress leader and former Union minister Kapil Sibal wears many hats, adept as he is at multi-tasking. Speaking to Sandeep Bamzai, Editor in Chief and Executive Editor Deepak Sharma of IANS TV on several contentious issues, he rejected the notion of religion being used as […]
