Mayank Chhaya- For 34 years between 1977 and 2011 the Left Front, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM as its main constituent, ruled the state of West Bengal. With its thumping electoral victory in Gujarat’s just concluded assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved a step closer to repeating that […]
The Supreme Court on Friday, November 11, ordered the release of six persons who had been convicted for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. The apex court of India ordered the convicts’ release after two of them – S Nalini and RP Ravichandran – sought an early release from prison. All seven convicts were serving life sentences and had spent more than 30 years in jail.
The Twitter takeover by Elon Musk has found a surprising welcome by Rahul Gandhi, now on a 2300-mile or 3750-kilometer march on foot as part of his “Unite India Journey” or “Bharat Jodo Yatra.”
Mayank Chhaya- On July 14, 1942, barely a week before India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress’s new president Mallikarjun Kharge was born, its main decision-making body authorized Mohandas Gandhi to embark on a nationwide mass movement. That movement was famously and succinctly christened ‘Bharat Chhodo Andolan’ or ‘Quit India Movement’ to dislodge the […]
