“We were offered ‘rule’ if we didn’t oppose”
Posted on Jun 25th, 2015
Roopinder Singh & Sarbjit Dhaliwal Democratic freedom was suspended and India effectively placed under a dictatorship after the imposition of an “internal emergency” from the night of June 25, 1975, by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Nowhere was it as stoutly resisted as in Punjab, where the Shiromani Akali Dal launched a …
The way Sonia dropped me was a shock: Natwar Singh
Posted on Aug 3rd, 2014
A MAN who was for years known to be closemouthed about the Nehru-Gandhi family has opened up, and how. His latest book, ‘One Life is Not Enough’, has the political classes chattering and the TV viewing classes getting their thrills over the ‘juicy bits’. Natwar Singh was an IFS officer for over 33 years, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan …