Jawaharlal Nehru passed away on May 27, 1964 at the age of 74 in New Delhi after a heart attack. On his death anniversary today, let s remember the inspirational quotes by the first Prime Minister of India.
Rattanbai Petit and Mohammad Ali Jinnah: An Interfaith Marriage That Went Down in History
Excerpted with permission from Ruttie Jinnah: The Woman who stood defiant by Dr Saad S. Khan, published by Penguin Random House.
A digitised image of Ruttie and Mohammed Ali Jinnah superimposed on their Bombay home South Point. Photo: Special arrangement
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The marriage between Rattanbai Petit and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in 1918, was nothing short of a box-office thriller. It indeed was âthe marriage that shook Indiaâ, as Sheela Reddyâs aptly titled book suggests. Given the high status that Jinnah enjoyed at the time in the eyes of the British government, within the Congress and the Muslim League and before both the factions of the Home Rule League (led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant, respectively), Jinnah had many enemies who were jealous of his success. Ruttie, the jewel of Bombay, had so many suitors that she had rejected that it would be impractical
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SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT II - A joint oppressor
Left nationalists are in thrall to a bogus history, argues Jack Conrad. Scotland was not subject to an English takeover with the 1707 Act of Union. Nor does Scotland suffer from English cultural imperialism
Europe’s first nations had an embryonic existence, which for the sake of neatness is usually dated back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Here we have fertilisation, eg, Geoffrey Chaucer and his use of Middle English in works such as
Tales of Caunterbury (1400). At the time the prestigious languages in England were Norman-French and Latin. Chaucer’s Middle English reflected the growing importance of market relations: ie, circulation, and the rise of capitalism. He was the first author of standing to use many common English phrases and words: ‘add’, ‘agree’, ‘desk’, ‘dishonest’, etc. Because of the printing press, by the early 16th century, his writings gained a mass audience amongst the educated minority. All part of