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Chef Cyrus Todiwala chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the 'Grand Old Man of India' who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP for Finsbury Central. He later returned to India and petitioned for the country ...
As resolved in Lahore, Congress observed Purna Swaraj Day all over the country on January 26, 1930, in a spirited manner. Lakhs of Indians observed a symbolic Independence Day by hoisting the Congress ...
Independence rulers to a party searching for purpose, the Indian National Congress’s history does not make a continuum ...
On the 140th Foundation Day of the Indian National Congress, President Mallikarjun Kharge reaffirmed that Congress is an ...
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday on the occasion of the 141st foundation say of the party called upon the ...
The Congress on Saturday marked its 140th Foundation Day with a strong message of commitment to constitutional values, democratic institutions and social justice, as the party president addressed ...

Lessons from the past

In the late 1800s, Dadabhai Naoroji exposed the violence of empire. More than a century later, empire’s logic of exclusion ...
On his 200th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra/Rediff traces the life, thought, and legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India. IMAGE: Dadabhai Naoroji. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons ...