New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s private letters to the then Finance Minister John Mathai and West Bengal Chief Minister Bidhan Chandra Roy reveal an episode reflecting attempts at addressing issues more in the context of perceptions then historical significance and sensitivities.The correspondence, now accessible through the digitised Nehru archives, exhibits his deep concern about Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy’s alleged tax assessment disp…
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Mumbai, May 5 (IANS) Director Vivek Agnihotri, who is known for ‘The Kashmir Files’, ‘The Tashkent Files’, ‘The Bengal Files’ and others, has reacted to the election defeat of Mamata Banerjee in the recently concluded West Bengal assembly elections. On Monday, he took to his Instagram, and shared a note following the victory of BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections. He spoke about how Mamata Banerjee banned him from entering the state, and how ‘The Kashmir Files’ was not allo…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Leaders across parties have reacted sharply to the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s (NCERT) revised Class 8 Social Science textbook, which states that the Congress accepted the 1947 Partition as “the only way forward”, sparking a fresh debate over how India’s history is taught.Speaking to IANS, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi accused the Congress of distorting historical realities for decades. “The history of the Congress party is quite t…