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Articles with tag: indira

Film “Amu” Revisits the 1984 Sikh Massacre in Delhi

Ras Siddiqui   Jul 27, 2007   interacts: 7

Kaju’s past leads to the year 1984, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.

Rahul Gandhi's Election Campaign

mehul kamdar   Apr 29, 2007   interacts: 20

Like monarchs of yore, this family seeks, perhaps, to install itself as a permanent ruling family in India.

Ba, Beti aur Bahu

Farzana Versey   Apr 5, 2006   interacts: 95

Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?

Deconstructing Durga

Farzana Versey   Oct 31, 2004   interacts: 86

She took away the privy purses, but kept the princes; spoke of social democracy but gave a fillip to the license permit raj. She thrived on strife. Operation Bluestar was based on lies. Bhindranwale was the Osama to Indira’s Bush. She had propped hi

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