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This book provides fascinating insights into the Indo-US relations from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Supported with confidential documentary evidence, it addresses a variety of issues ranging from food crisis, nuclear development, Vietnam War, to Indo-Pak relations, Kashmir imbroglio and Stalin’s daughter Svetlana’s escape.
It also provides sensitive complexities between Lyndon Johnson and Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri ...
Women in India have a long way to go to achieve meaningful empowerment buta beginning has certainly been made. The growth of political parties led bywomen is a hopeful sign and the fact that the number is only growing is alsoimportant. Social changes, increasing access to education and health, growingawareness among women to fight for their due place and, above all, thedetermination to achieve empowerment, provide a fillip to womens dreams.Pandoras daughters ...
This book renders a fascinating study of how democracy survives in India despite the personality cult having a remarkable sway over the polity. An overview of the subject raises several questions: Would this cult and its several offshoots in any way subvert the Constitution, whose core component is both secular and democratic? How real is this apprehension? In what shape or form could this happen, if it does? And what precautions or alternative measures need to ...