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New Parliament building opening | How a letter to PMO set off a search for the Sengol

A letter to the Prime Minister’s Office by danseuse Padma Subrahmanyam set off a research into the Sengol, the golden sceptre, that would be installated in the new Parliament building

The Hindu

The ‘Sengol’, a historic sceptre with a deep Tamil Nadu connection

On May 28, 2023, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicates the new Parliament building to the nation, a slice of history will would be revisited.

The Hindu

Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today

Welcome to the Tamil Nadu Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today.

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Inspired by the Cholas, handed over to Nehru: historic ‘Sengol’ to be installed in new Parliament building

A sengol or sceptre is going to be installed in the new parliament building. What has it got to do with India’s independence, Chola dynasty and Tamil traditions? Read to find out.

The Hindu

BJP disrespecting history, says Pinarayi

Removing episodes involving Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Abul Kalam Azad, besides the Mughal reign from history textbooks is unpardonable, says Pinarayi

The Hindu

Narendra Modi in Australia: a polarising leader meets a divided Indian diaspora

More than 20,000 supporters are expected at a public rally for the Indian PM in Sydney this week. But critics will be just as strident

The Guardian - AU

The LAC crisis and the danger of losing without fighting

India is under pressure on the Line of Actual Control and needs to find a way to transfer that pressure back to China

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The end of Vigyan Prasar is the death of another Nehruvian idea

As Vigyan Prasar has veered away from its original mandate of promoting scientific temper, it matters little even if it survives in any other form

The Hindu

Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks

Government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.

Al Jazeera

A fresh era for India or a ham-fisted ego trip? Welcome to Modi’s new seat of power

The prime minister says his £120m parliament building will establish a new order – critics say the design doesn’t match that ambition

The Guardian - UK

Winged messengers of Odisha police keep glorious past alive: Carrier pigeon service not redundant till now

BHUBANESWAR: The first Prime Minister, late Jawaharlal Nehru, was in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on April 13, 1948, about eight months after India achieved Independence.

The Times of India

‘Not a virtue but necessity’: What it’s like attending a Rahul Gandhi press conference

In a luxury hotel atop a hillock overlooking Srinagar’s Dal Lake, the enthusiasm was evident, and the hall packed ahead of schedule. It was the 13th and final press conference of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, before the march came to an end after travelling over 135 days from Kanyakumari in…

Newslaundry

A chronicle of Nehru, his missteps, and Modi’s magic: The new Nehru museum

With the Rashtrapati Bhavan to their south, and the Nehru memorial to the north, the three statues at Delhi’s Teen Murti Circle have long stood witness to India’s tryst with destiny: from a brutal repression of the freedom struggle to the fall of the British Empire, and Independence.

Newslaundry

Curious case of Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt and missing jacket

NEW DELHI: For the second time in the course of the Congress’s ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, party leader Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt has generated controversy. If it was the alleged high-priced T-shirt earlier, it is “only T-shirt” which has led to a debate on his missing jacket.

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Tit for tat: Why Rahul Gandhi visited Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s samadhi

NEW DELHI: After accusations that the BJP was attempting to appropriate Congress leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, BR Ambedkar, Subhash Chandra Bose and Narasimha Rao, the grand old party has sought to do the same with former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The Times of India

88-year-old Congress worker walks the miles in Bharat Jodo Yatra

DAUSA(RAJASTHAN): Marking the continuum of time and political history as he notches up mile after mile in the Bharat Jodo Yatra with a stick in one hand and the tricolour in the other, 88-year-old Karuna Prasad Mishra knits together old world idealism with steely pragmatism about the India of today.

Newslaundry

Newsance 194: India-China border clash and why it’s all Nehru's fault

TV Newsance is back after a break! And guess what, nothing much has changed when it comes to the world of TV news. The big news of the week was the clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, and we saw news anchors tripping over each other…

The Times of India

Sharad Pawar: PM Modi uses govt platforms to target opposition

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was using government platforms to target the opposition, something never done by his predecessors.

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Using data to tell the story of India’s infrastructure issues, and the way ahead

In October 1963, while inaugurating the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru used the evocative phrase “temples of modern India” to describe the infrastructural milestones in the formative years of India’s post-Independence economic rebuilding. The dam, which took nearly 15 years to…

Al Jazeera

A ‘march to unite India’, led by Congress, reaches half-way mark

The nationwide march on foot, led by India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, has reached its 80th day.

Dynamite News

J&K: "Youth Got Connected With PDP After Article 370 Was Scrapped," Claims Suhail Bukhari

PDP leader Suhail Bukhari claimed that the Kashmiri youths got connected with the party after 5 August, 2019 when Article 370 and 35A were revoked from Jammu & Kashmir. Read on for details:

The Conversation

Why you should know the exciting experimental, political and feminist work of senior Indian artist Nalini Malani

Contemporary Indian artist Nalini Malani, born in 1946, is infinitely experimental.

The Times of India

Rahul Gandhi faces flak from ally and rivals over remarks on Savarkar

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi stoked a controversy yet again by alleging that freedom fighter VD Savarkar helped the Britishers and remained loyal to them. Not just the BJP but Congress’s ally Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) slammed the opposition leader.

The Times of India

Nehru's birth anniversary: Congress, BJP clash again on his Kashmir policy

NEW DELHI: With increasing attacks by the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress chose his 133rd birth anniversary on Monday to defend him and “expose every lie” being spread about him, particularly over his Kashmir policy.

The Times of India

Maker of modern India: Congress pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on birth anniversary

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday paid rich tributes to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, saying 21st century India cannot be imagined without his tremendous contribution.

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