Air terrorism in the 50's
The year was 1955. Indo China relations were quite warm, the Panschsheel had been signed the previous year. In 1954, Premier Zhou Enlai had visited Delhi, the ICFA was setting up bhai-bhai meetings all over, Nehru visited Beijing, exchange students were selected, deleg…
The ill-fated Kashmir princess
Air terrorism in the 50's
The year was 1955. Indo China relations were quite warm, the Panschsheel had been signed the previous year. In 1954, Premier Zhou Enlai had visited Delhi, the ICFA was setting up bhai-bhai meetings all over, Nehru visited Beijing, exchange students were selected, deleg…
A chat with Narayani Basu, author of - VP Menon - The
Unsung Architect of Modern India.
When Narayani Basu signaled her intent to inform history
enthusiasts about the life and times of her great grandfather, Vappala Pangunni
Menon, I knew that the time was right. The Nehru years were slowly fading …
Maddy in conversation
with Jairam Ramesh, author of ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K.
Krishna Menon’
While many people have opined that they could never
understand VK Krishna Menon or his ways, let alone his actions, even those who
have been close to him throughout his life such as Ja…
Sheikh Othman (Hanuman)
in Yemen
Many years ago, one Sir Syed Ahmad Taqvi bin Syed Muhammad
Muttaqi KCSI, commonly known as Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, an Islamic pragmatist, reformist
and philosopher of nineteenth century British India wrote thus at Aden, circa
1870, in his ‘A voyage to Modernism (Safarn…
