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There is no denying this fact: the original Islamic conquest of North India (beginning approximately 1000 AD), which brought new rulers from outside the Indian subcontinent, was quite violent. The signs are even there today in Delhi, which served as the place from where the invaders decided to administer their newly conquered territory. Telltale signs […]
Though the British who moved the Capital of India in 1911 had not intended it to be so, after freedom in 1947, Delhi became a refugee city. Full of Punjabis who had left their home and hearth and ran away for their lives and settled in Delhi for new beginnings, Delhi soon became a refugee […]
“The PM is very fond of Odia officers, it seems,” chuckled the representative of a prominent Ahmedabad company who has worked closely with Narendra Modi. The remark came after former RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das was appointed as Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister. Das, a product of Delhi University, was a 1980 batch IAS officer […]
CP Surendran is a well-known journalist who has a way with words. He was the resident editor of The Times of India in Pune when I held the same position for the paper in Ahmedabad. Two days ago, he wrote a piece in The New Indian Express that caught my attention. He recounted an incident […]
Will Gujarat now come to Delhi? I posed this question to Rajiv Shah, a prominent journalist from Gujarat, even as the election results rolled in, indicating that the BJP had emphatically won the Delhi polls, ousting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). While Narendra Modi and Amit Shah were firmly entrenched in the city, I asked […]
