Monthly Archive for: ‘August, 2020’
Elevate Event Agency
Elevate Event Agency is a full-service event planning and production agency headed by Anu Kirpalani and Rebecca Pereira, who offer more than 20 years of combined industry experience. Elevate Event Agency’s services include event design, event management, destination management, and much more! With the ability …
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The Modi foreign policy doctrine: India as a smart power
The opening address by the President of India to the new Parliament is really an occasion for the new government to outline its policy agenda for the next five years. The presidential address on June 9 was probably one of the most ambitious in the …
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Secret history: the release of the Mountbatten archives and the fight to access royal diaries
An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has quietly been released in the United Kingdom. These are the diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife Lady Edwina, from the 1920s until 1968. As the last great-grandchild and godchild of …
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PM Modi’s address at India Ideas Summit
“Namaste! Business leaders, Distinguished guests, I thank the US-India Business Council for inviting me to address the ‘India Ideas Summit’. I also congratulate the USIBC on its forty-fifth anniversary this year. Over the past decades, the USIBC has brought Indian and American business closer. USIBC’s …
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Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the 20th century, and we will publish profiles for each …
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Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledges
India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united to put Modi back in office. This is the second time since 1971 that a majority incumbent government has returned to power with majority in …
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How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
“Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British were able to secure agreement over how independence would take place. At the time, few people …
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How a British royal’s monumental errors made India’s partition more painful
The midnight between August 14 and 15, 1947, was one of history’s truly momentous moments: It marked the birth of Pakistan, an independent India and the beginning of the end of an era of colonialism. It was hardly a joyous moment: A botched process of …
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Colonialism was a disaster and the facts prove it
Recently an academic article, asserting the historical benefits of colonialism, created an outcry and a petition with over 10, 000 signatures calling for its removal. The Case for Colonialism, published in Third World Quarterly by Bruce Gilley, argues Western colonialism was both “objectively beneficial and …
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India Under PM Modi
While India and Indians worldwide celebrate India’s 75th Independence day, Prime Minister Modi’s seven+ years in office marks the longest uninterrupted non-Congress government at the centre. It’s a combination of the pull of PM Modi’s personality, a right-of-centre stream of politics, and a few lessons …
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