The Inflation Syndrome: Economy, Politics and China
By Shivaji Sengupta
We are living in Inflation America. Everything is inflated - the economy, Trumpian politics, China.
Mid-August in America means six weeks from the...
Jammu vs Kashmir: Electoral politics deepens the divide
DEEPIKA BHAN
It has been an ongoing debate for more than seven decades and it is about Kashmir's dominance in the erstwhile state of J&K...
Assam’s bards of freedom gave a voice to nationalist aspirations
SUJIT CHAKRABORTY
Guwahati/Agartala, Aug 14 (IANS) The 1920s to 1940s was a period when a large number of songs, poems and lyrics were composed in...
Usha Mehta: Freedom fighter at 8, aired ‘Secret Congress Radio’ at 22, became a...
QUAID NAJMI
Mumbai, Aug 14 (IANS) At an age when most children attended kindergarten and mouthed ABCD, one feisty eight-year-old girl from Saras village in...
The life and martyrdom of ‘Gandhi of Malkangiri’ Laxman Nayak
BISWA BHUSAN MOHAPATRA
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) India attained freedom from the British Raj after a ceaseless struggle spanning around 200 years and sacrificing...
Gandhi’s Soldiers: They defied the Raj and ran their own ‘jatiya sarkar’
SOURISH BHATTACHARYYA
A bustling port town of antiquity visited by the Chinese monk-travellers Fa-hien, Hsuan-tsang, and Yi Jing, celebrated in ancient Sanskrit literature, notably in...
Valiant Tulu queen who united Hindus, Muslims against the Portuguese
M.K. ASHOKA
Bengaluru, Aug 11 (IANS) Rani Abbakka, the great Tulu queen regarded as the first female freedom fighter of India, is not only known...
The chief who led Andhra’s now-forgotten first mass rebellion
MOHAMMED SHAFEEQ
Hyderabad, Aug 6 (IANS) Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy is hailed as the 19th-century hero who led the first mass rebellion in Andhra Pradesh against...
Bundelkhand’s ‘Jallianwala Bagh’ led to martyrdom of 21 freedom fighters
SUNDEEP PAURANIK
Bhopal, Aug 6 (IANS) The people of Bundelkhand have also made a major contribution to the freedom struggle of the country.
Chhatarpur district's Charan...
A poet-revolutionary who gave India its freedom song
AMITA VERMA
It was Bismil Azimabadi of Patna who wrote "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qatil mein hai"...
