While it may be possible to reject the idea of Atmanirbhar Bharat, before doing so, it would be a good idea to examine it as a concept. It may be recalled that, for instance, Rabindranath Tagore ...

Manmohan Singh on Friday described P.V. Narasimha Rao as “the father of economic reforms in India”, a title often bestowed on the former finance minister himself for presenting the path-br...

The grandson of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and BJP spokesperson, N.V. Subhash, on Thursday took exception to the Congress organising the birth centenary celebrations of the late leader a...

BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh said on Monday that the charges against him in the Babri Masjid demolition case were “baseless and motivated”. After appear...

One of India’s greatest rulers, the Emperor Ashoka, was forgotten for centuries and had to be rescued from obscurity by British Orientalist James Prinsep. Similarly, P.V. Narasimha Rao, who laid...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the 1984 Sikh massacre perhaps “could have been avoided” had then home minister P.V. Narasimha Rao paid heed to the advice of Inder Kumar Gujral to ca...

The question of other stakeholders in the Naga peace process does not arise as the talks are between the Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) as two entities, the outfit ...

By profession, octogenarian K. Shyam Babu Subudhi is a homeopathy practitioner. But come election time, he becomes the wannabe David challenging Goliaths — the list of luminaries Subudhi has taken o...

With Singapore’s veteran ambassador-at-large, Gopinath Pillai, now also special envoy to Andhra Pradesh, the island-state may yet live up to initial hopes of a catalytic role in India. If nothing mu...

Not for nothing was Japan called the Britain of the East. Emperor Hirohito’s phlegmatic “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage” broadcast on August 15, 1945 famo...