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  1. Memories of youthful days in pre-Independence Punjab

    Category: Stories/Stories About Women

    ... salt in small salt pans. When Gandhiji launched the Salt Satyagraha movement, my grandfather took the children to river Ravi.  There were salt pans.  Next day we collected some salt, mixed it with water, ... Saturday, 26 August 2017
  2. Vanu Bhuta - the designer of Rajghat

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... Gandhi Samadhi on the banks of Yamuna, where he was cremated. I am not sure whether it was called Rajghat then. Rajghat, which means "Built up stepped embankment along the river meant for use by King", ... Monday, 06 October 2014
  3. Gandhiji’s Impressions of My Uncle

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... call it. When Gandhiji was imprisoned in the Aga Khan palace, in Poona, between 1942 and 1944, my uncle, P S Gopalan, was assigned by API as the reporter to attend Gandhiji's daily press conference. ... Monday, 16 June 2014
  4. Morarji Desai’s Visit to INS Shakti

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... February 1979 The PM was a practicing Gandhian with quite a few of the Mahatma's fancies and foibles. The sprightly PM, well over 80 years old, ate only fresh and dry fruit. He drank only cow's milk. ... Friday, 13 June 2014
  5. Working with Muhammad Ali, the boxing champ

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... friend of Indira Gandhi. The plan to make India I Love You was carefully worked out. In India, Ali's reception was even more rapturous. He was given a royal reception. We took him to the Taj Mahal, and ... Wednesday, 23 April 2014
  6. Indira Gandhi Interview 1971

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    Indira Gandhi Interview No date or description available, but the discussion is about tensions between India and Pakistan over what was East Pakistan and became Bangladesh.  ... Tuesday, 06 November 2012
  7. Mahatma Gandhi's house in South Africa

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    Photographs of The Satyagraha House,Mahatma Gandhi's house in Johannesburg, South Africa.The house has recently been restored and is now open to receive visitors at its museum, and guests for stay.  ... Sunday, 15 July 2012
  8. Rami and the immersion of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ... management and advising several companies on these issues. His email id is mpvshanoi@gmail.com.   Assassination 30 Jan 1948. The news stunned the world. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead while he ... Thursday, 12 July 2012
  9. Shimla Conference 1945 to discuss India's Independence

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    Shimla Conference 1945 between Viceroy and various Indian leaders to discuss India's Independence   Another report Another report on Shimla Conference 1945 A newspaper ... Tuesday, 21 February 2012
  10. Mahatma Gandhi’s cremation special train

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ...  Mahatma Gandhi's Asthi, (the Indian name for the ashes removed from the funeral pyre), was conveyed by a special train from Delhi to Allahabad for immersion at the Sangam, the confluence of the ... Wednesday, 08 February 2012
  11. A meeting with Prime Minister Nehru

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... to see the Prime Minister. But Nehru rang the bell on the table. His personal attendant came in, and Nehru told the man to ask Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, to come as soon as possible. Indira Gandhi, ... Wednesday, 11 January 2012
  12. A Morning with Indira Gandhi

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... photography. I liked Gandhiji, his politics and philosophy but I could never see him. He was a photographer's delight; a man made for the camera. I was young. The camera bug had not bitten me. Only when ... Saturday, 10 April 2010
  13. Defying Sanjay Gandhi: A Civil Servant Remembers the Emergency

    Category: Stories/The Unforgettable

    ... Planning for the Millions. When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared an Internal Emergency - which came to be known as just ‘the Emergency' - on June 26, 1975, I was a senior Indian Administrative ... Friday, 23 January 2009
  14. Satara’s Hanging Banyan Tree फांशीचा वड

    Category: Stories/Life Back Then

    Arvind Kolhatkar spent his childhood in Satara, and later studied at Fergusson College, Pune and the University of Pune. After getting his MA in Mathematics, he joined the Indian Revenue Service, served ... Thursday, 22 January 2009
  15. Gandhi Assassination Backlash in Satara by Arvind Kolhatkar

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ... currently live in Toronto. His email address is kolhatkar@hotmail.com. Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on January 30, 1948. Godse was a Maharashtrian Brahmin, like my family. ... Sunday, 18 January 2009
  16. Purna Swaraj 1929-30 Video

    Category: Videos/Audio / Video

    Purna Swaraj Resolution 1929-30 Sunday, 30 November 2008
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