R Venkataraman, a veteran member belonging to the Congress Party, who later became the President of the republic from 1987 to 1992, participating in the parliamentary discussion on 21 February 1979, expressed the solidarity of the House with the people of Vietnam.
History is often written by the victor, and no finer examples can be found than from Winston Churchill’s books on the Second World War and British imperial stories, in which he played no small role.
The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away on Thursday 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She was 96 years old being born on 21 April 1926.
The joint investigations of Russian and Swedish authorities found evidence that Wallenberg had been executed in the Soviet prison.
A few months later, Dadabhai Naoroji’s granddaughter, Khurshed Naoroji, in her letter to Louis Fischer, confirmed Bose’s existence in Russia.
In the summer of 1940, the Viceroy offered self-governing dominion status for India within a year after the end of the Second World War. Gandhiji rejected it as too little too late and wanted an unequivocal declaration of India's independence after the War. This was followed by his Quit India movement which culminated the process that began in 1929. But in all these years, the hope of independence was kept alive by celebrating 26 January as Independence Day. It was only appropriate that the Indian Constitution was promulgated on 26 January 1950, as independence without the spirit of Republicanism along with solidarity, dignity and equality would have been incomplete.
The President placed a floral wreath before the Motherland monument, but before he stopped and left flowers next to the mass grave where Victor's remains lie.
On the 80th anniversary of the first gunshot that ignited the conflict (1939-45), the President of Poland utilised the opportunity to debunk Western leaders who had proposed rapprochement with President Vladimir Putin after Moscow’s actions in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014.
Japan's immediate neighbours ~ China and the Koreas ~ could be rejoicing that Abe's aim to revise the Constitution remains in limbo and would be happy that this remains unrealized. The shadow of history still continues to haunt and any possibility of Japan becoming a normal state could cause a nightmare to those nations that suffered the brutality of Japan's military during the Second World War. There are fears that instead of addressing the issue of Japan's security, it would destabilize the region.
It beats one's imagination to surmise the degree of excruciating agony that this lonely hero had to endure, the frustration he fought against and what debilitating depression he had to contend with throughout his life in exile in singular and sickening isolation. His wistful yearning for a free India remained unfulfilled.
