Lala Lajpat Rai

Partition-era debate on who is Indian has been reopened by the citizenship bill, with grave consequences

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is, at its heart, a debate waged around the rights of ignored Partition refugees, but with far wider implications for what it meant to be Indian

Narendra Modi pays tribute to freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on birth anniversary, says he was a 'righteous' leader

Leaders paid tribute to freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on his birth anniversary on Sunday. Also called Sher-e-Punjab and Punjab Kesri, Rai was one of the first promoters of Swadeshi movement in India

Govt denies reports of likely appointment of journalist Swapan Dasgupta as Nehru library head

Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Wednesday denied reports on the likely appointment of journalist Swapan Dasgupta as head of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML).

PM Modi pays tribute to Lala Lajpat Rai on 149th birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tribute to noted freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on his 149th birth anniversary, saying he was a unique personality ahead of his time.

Bose or Vajpayee: India politicises, then downgrades Bharat Ratna

With the Bharat Ratna increasingly being associated or remembered for the controversies it has generated or tends to generate rather than for the inspiration it can provide, there have been intermittent demands to scrap it.