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The ingenuity of India’s social reformers
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The ingenuity of India’s social reformers
On the 160th anniversary of the Mughal emperor’s death, a retired Indian Navy officer recalls a trip to his mausoleum.
They plotted to steal the symbolic stone from the spiritual heart of the British empire on Christmas Day 1950. Then every single step of their plan went wrong.
Emotions were running high for Barbara McLoughlin as memories of German bombings in her hometown came rushing back. “I was in Plymouth, the most heavily bombed city in England,” says McLoughlin at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Port Stanley, Ont. on Sunday. “1940 was terrible."
The opposition in the BJP regime, unnerved by the rapid rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a leader of global eminence, has tried to run down his government by alleging that it is giving a fillip to Hinduism and taking the country towards ...