Author: Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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P V Narasimha Rao and India’s Foreign Policy
While his economic contributions are well recognised, P V Narasimha Rao’s role in reorienting India’s foreign policy is undermined. During his tenure, P V Narasimha Rao was committed to responding to global challenges by reorienting the foreign policy of India based on national interest and bringing several shifts in India’s foreign policy amid unfavourable domestic…
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Archives: Charan Singh: Chronology of major events
1902 Born on 23 December in village Nurpur, Meerut district. 1923 Received his BSc from Agra College, Agra. 1925 Received his MA from Agra College. Married to Smt Gayatri Devi on 5 June 1925 1926 Received his LLB from Meerut College, Meerut, Agra University. 1928 Practiced law in Ghaziabad. 1929 Joined the Indian National Congress…
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P.V. Narasimha Rao: Three Snippets
Now that the Bharat Ratna is conferred, Narasimha Rao will be greatly talked about, his politics, his role in the 1991 Economic reforms, and how the Congress party tried to erase his legacy. But three things less spoken about Rao, the man behind all the politics has greatly amazed me. Polyglot and Scholar: Rao knew…
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Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga, RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality As a group of economists and leaders in the fight against extreme inequalities from around the world, we write to request your leadership towards ensuring that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals…
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Archives: To a Rag and Bone Boy by Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy (Translated by Rowena Hill)
In someone’s shed in someone else’s arms the boy has slept; he gets up at dawn, kicks the laggard beside him, slings a sack-bag over his shoulder, and out he goes into lanes and filthy alleys. He comes to a corporation dump, stands with clasped hands as if discovering a treasure, turns and wades in;…
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Translation: On Dalit Movement by K. Balagopal
Translation: It is unsure how much the Dalit movement has taught the communists, but it was a significant loss for the Dalit movement to have borrowed the idea from communists that political mobilisation can be a solution for all the problems. Dalit leaders attribute this idea to Ambedkar, but even though he was of the…
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Sonia Gandhi: A Force to Reckon With
Looking at Sonia Gandhi leading rallies in various states for the Congress party in recent days and the aura she has over the crowd reminded me of some things I read about her back in 2014 before Modi became Prime Minister in the book India’s Broken Tryst written by Tavleen Singh. Tavleen Singh is close…
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My birth is fatal
My birth is fatal. Is it really one? Not because I am an illegitimate child Not because I was born a diseased or torso Not because of any reason you can possibly think Or I have thought till today. But today, I realized my birth is fatal because ‘You are not a born Hindu You…
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