Sukriti Tankha Delhi Power, Politics and Premonitions Before Independence In the months leading up to Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel engage in hectic deliberations with British Viceroy Louis Mountbatten over the fate of the country. Lady Edwina Mountbatten, on the other hand, is disturbed by the unseasonal blooming of laburnums—something she associates with impending […]Read More
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For us Indians, Pokhran means the site of the country’s first nuclear tests. But what many don’t know is that this village in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district had to face the lasting negative impact as a result of these tests. Why? Because this went largely unreported by the media. Economist-engineer-philosopher Uday Singh has debuted as an […]Read More