PR Ramesh
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
The Emergency was a black chapter in India’s post-Independence history which has mercifully not been repeated. The curtailment of Article 352 and the proactive role of the constitutional courts in protecting the ‘basic structure' of the Constitution have prevented political overreach
Marking the 50th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a “dark chapter” (1975-1977) when “the spirit of the Constitution was completely violated.”
My earliest idea of Emergency was this: that my father, who had an arrest warrant under MISA, must not be seen eating lunch in the bedroom
Remembering Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 105th birth anniversary when the country he founded is trying to forget him
It is both facile and inaccurate to dub Trump a fascist, just as it is a travesty to stick the same label on Israel
Wealth-shaming is coming to an end as more Indians become prosperous on Modi’s watch