Indira Gandhi
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In Remembrance of Shaheed Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, Bir Uttam (My Cousin Nishat Bhai):
A tribute, headed “by Shawkat”, to Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, a Dhaka University student who became one of the first guerrillas in Dhaka and was killed in action in the 1971…
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Lazy Sunday – Pakistan has the best looking leader in the world now
A Sunday roundup of links on Imran Khan and Raza Rumi’s new book, with the author’s views on Pakistan’s leader, optics and hijab, a claim that Indira Gandhi was the…
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LV on Indira response
A Quora answer by Rahul Sinha explaining why Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency in 1975, covering suspended rights, press censorship and mass sterilisation, reproduced as a reply to a question.
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LV on Indira
X.T.M, after a Vidhi-prompted video of Indira Gandhi, calls her India’s best prime minister, credits her grit with breaking East Pakistan from Pakistan in 1971, and contrasts her charisma, intellect…
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“Why cant a woman be more like a man?”
After Erdogan called a woman journalist a ‘shameless woman’ who should know her place, the poster says it likes seeing women on top, to show they are equal in public…
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Operation Bluestar
On the thirtieth anniversary, Hamid Hussain traces how the centre-Punjab conflict, Sikh political rivalries, rural distress and Bhindranwale’s rise led to the June 1984 army operation to clear militants from…
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The Golden Temple
Posts Hartosh Singh Bal’s account blaming Rajiv Gandhi’s blunders for Operation Bluestar, with the poster’s view that 1984 was a great crime within an action-reaction story, and that religion should…
