The Prime Ministers Museum & Library, at a recent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is president of PMML Society, resolved to initiate legal proceedings to recover the Nehru papers removed by Sonia Gandhi in 2008. PR Ramesh examines the legal and political storm over the private papers of India’s first prime minister and why they remain at the heart of a battle for legacy and control
Fear is the price to pay for jihadists and their enablers in Pakistan as Operation Sindoor cements a new doctrine of deterrence through disproportionate response
As gold prices crossed a record ₹1 lakh per 10 grams, PR Ramesh looks at how India came to own one-sixth of the world’s gold while claiming only 1 per cent of its global production
Agencies have seized drugs worth over ₹1.5 lakh crore in the past decade and the government’s holistic strategy is bearing results, the Home Minister tells PR Ramesh
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle