Indian Independence News

CHENNAI: Kuppusamy Andal is 84 and can no longer recollect the heady days of the Second World War when she and her husband dug trenches and hid in them while the Japanese hurled bombs targeting their house.

In the heart of the northern Indian city of Lucknow looms a national shrine where the infamous 1857 Indian Mutiny took place.

Disabled protest proposed cuts to services - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin By Robert Roger RIVERSIDE - Some stood and many sat in wheelchairs on the downtown sidewalk, protesting what they regard as an assault ...

Some stood and many sat in wheelchairs on the downtown sidewalk, protesting what they regard as an assault on their rights.

Gandhi Fest will be held at the River School in Reno beginning at 4 p.m. on July 26 to celebrate the life and message of Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement and ...

The celebration of 61st Indian independence will be marked by the 28th India Day Parade in New York and the debutant actress Deepika Padukone has been given the opportunity to lead the parade as grand marshal ...

Religion Words of inspiration Danella Booker, customer service manager for Southern Container in Murfreesboro, shared a favorite quote from Mahatma Gandhi: 'We must become the change we want to see in the ...

Time was when the Guardian was the favourite British newspaper of the Indian elite because of its historic support for Indian independence and its generally liberal-left collectivist outlook, which coincided ...

“They assume too easily that both men enjoyed the same public adoration and reverence when they were emerging onto their respective national scenes as they did when they left them.”

"Most people, including historians, tend to read Gandhi and Churchill's lives backwards," writes Arthur Herman in his impressive new dual biography. via New York Post

“We need people who can build the nation and take it forward”

RSS chief narrates the stimulating incidents VIJAYAWADA: The Krishna Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition Society and 'Samskara Bharati' jointly organised '1857-Pranamanjali', a meeting to pay tributes to ... via The Hindu

“The families begged for them to be spared and we released most of them, but a few we could not because their crimes were so terrible”

As members of the dreaded militias that backed the Pakistan army in its 1971 fight against Bangladesh independence, the seven men had committed atrocities against their compatriots. via Gulf Times

“He was a good listener; his letters show his ability to separate the grain from the chaff in talks with high and low”

This is a remarkable and gripping book that provides a scholarly insight into the Indian independence movement and the leaders who helped end British colonial rule. via India eNews

“Whenever we got the opportunity to rule, we have provided efficient and honest governments both at state and at central level, and will continue to do so to produce models of su-raj (good governance).”

The Bharatiya Janata Party held a public meeting at Parade Grounds opposite to the historic Red Fort here Tuesday to pay its obeisance to the freedom fighters of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857. via India Gazette

Researching Maclean family who moved to papua New Guinea from India following Indian Independence. via Cousinconnect.com

“Lineker said in his letter, 'in case my ears are too big and the cost of the statue may have been too much'”

Topic started by bjkumar on Mar 29, 2008 5:16:17 pm Mahatma Gandhi statue in Leicester soon 29 Mar 2008, 1038 hrs IST,IANS LONDON: The residents of Leicester - home to the largest ethnic Indian population in ... via Chowk

A new book I'd love to read, reviewed : Khan weaves a historical narrative of like-minded groups bent on acquiring Indian independence from England. via Chapomatic

T he last couple of months have raised focus on the question of migration - and how migrants form Bihar and UP are being targeted by locals in hate attacks. via Patna Daily

“This kind of puts us in a new environment”

"It really provides the centrepiece of a growing relationship between our two air forces," Lemkin, a deputy undersecretary of the Air Force who had been working on the matter for almost two years, said in a ... via Gulf Times

“I am a socialist because half a loaf [for the hungry Indian humanity] was better than none.”

India needs democracy, development and a distributive strategy to salvage the lives of its have-nots. Indian Independence is a political phenomenon that has the sovereignty of the people enshrined in the ... via The Hindu

“Open to give, open to receive.”

Chandigarh, built on the baking plains of northern India, is one of Le Corbusier's greatest achievements. via MediaGuardian.co.uk