India implemented twelve Five Year Plans between 1951 and 2017 as a centralized economic planning mechanism to ensure balanced growth and resource use. The Planning Commission, established in 1950, formulated each plan…
ThePrint reports that global media outlets, including The Economist and the Financial Times, have characterized the Narendra Modi government's push for symbols like Vande Mataram and the saffron colour as part of…
Lawyer and author Javed Gaya has argued that the Constituent Assembly made a foundational error in the 1940s by prioritising individual liberty over structural representation for minorities, a choice he says laid…
Frontline reports on a historical analysis of Jawaharlal Nehru's role in Kashmir after 1947. The article notes that after Independence, the Indian government aimed to integrate princely states. While Junagadh's Muslim ruler's…
On June 3, 1947, the British government proposed a plan to partition colonial India, known as the Mountbatten Plan after Viceroy Lord Mountbatten. The proposal followed several rounds of discussions and led…
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday credited the party’s governments with building modern India and accused the BJP and RSS of dividing people. Speaking at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on…
NDTV’s account examines how four major figures experienced August 15, 1947, from Noakhali to Srinagar and Parliament. Jawaharlal Nehru was delivering his famous midnight speech, while Mahatma Gandhi was elsewhere. Muhammad Ali…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a 75-minute Independence Day speech from the Red Fort on Saturday, his shortest in four years and fourth shortest overall. His address lasted 103 minutes last year…
Some Hyderabad residents still carry the names of India’s freedom leaders, decades after such names were common in school registers. Telangana’s Tele-MANAS Centre head Jawaharlal Nehru says his freedom fighter father insisted…
Lord Louis Mountbatten chose August 15, 1947, for the transfer of power, partly because it marked Japan’s surrender anniversary. Indian astrologers reportedly considered the date inauspicious, but the date could not be…
