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NRIfm tribute to Chandrashekhar
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As part of
its tribute to the former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, who died
recently in Delhi after a prolonged illness, NRIfm presents a rare
interview, with him. In conversation with Vijay Rana in
1987, Chandrashekhar talks about why socialism had failed in
India. He was skeptical about the free market economic reforms of
the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In the second part he
discusses the rising trend of communalism in the Indian politics
and also about Indian army's attack on the golden Temple.
Part One
To listen click here
(Hindi)
Part Two
To listen click here
(Hindi)
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Pravasi
Diwas 2007, Votes for NRIs and a PIO Uni
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In a wide ranging interview with the NRIfm
editor Vijay Rana the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs spelled out
the plans for the 2007 Pravasi Diwas. He said NRIs will soon have right
to vote in India. His another priority is to promote educational
exchange through a newly set up NRI University. He said that India is
particularly keen to attract the second generation NRIs born and brought
up abroad, so that they can be have a real interaction with their social
and cultural roots.
To listen click here
(English)
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Level
playing field for all including Mittal
Paswan:
"Steel industry in India aims for rise in production, quality and
competitiveness."
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India's steel minister Ram Vilas
Paswan, who returned to London after a three-day visit to Luxembourg and
Netherlands, said there was vast potential for mutual cooperation
between India and European countries in many sectors other than steel. Paswan outlined the growth potential of steel
industry in India and said India has huge iron ore resources offering
vast opportunities for foreign investors, all of whom, including Lakshmi
Mittal, will have equal opportunities and a level playing field
to invest in India's steel sector. He said while India has been
supportive of Mittal's global acquisitions but that does not mean the
government will discriminate against other global investors.
To listen click here
(Hindi)
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Why speaker Somnath Chatterji is
ashamed?
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Distressed at the
unruly behaviour of the Indian MPs in the house the speaker of Lok
Sabha Somnath Chatterji said on Dec 7 that he is ashamed to be the
speaker of this house. The issue was the opposition demand that the
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi must resign because her party was named
in the Volker Report as one of the beneficiaries of Saddam
government's oil-for-food programme, a demand that provoked Congress
MPs.
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When
Netaji asked students to serve
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inspiring speech Netaji Subhash Bose asks Indian students to
emulate the example of youth in Russia, France and Italy to take
part in freedom struggle and serve their country. The speech seems
to be of the early 1940s when he was still a member of the Congress
party. In the 1941, disappointed with Gandhi's non-violent struggle,
he left India to launch a military struggle for the freedom of India
with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan, a move disapproved by
Gandhi and Nehru.
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I saw Netaji alive after his alleged plane crash: Capt Abbas Ali
The remarkable story of an old INA freedom fighter
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Captain Abbas Ali, a
commissioned officer in the British army, was sent to South-East
Asia in 1940 to fight against Japan. But in 1944, after
hearing an inspiring speech of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in
Singapore, he joined the Indian National Army. He saw Netaji very
closely and here he remembers the speech that Netaji gave in
Rangoon on the tomb of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
He says, he met Netaji at least ten days after he is said to have
died in the plane crash. Later he was court martialled by the
British army and given death by hanging. Like many INA prisoners he
was released after independence of India in August 1947. And of
course the old freedom fighter is not happy about the state of the
nation today.
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'The Chinese have spread darkness everywhere.'
NRIfm
finds a rare interview of
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
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On the
20th October 1962 when the Chinese army invaded India, the Indian
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was shocked. Nehru believed in
friendship with China and had signed the Panchsheel treaty of
peaceful coexistence with China in 1954. The popular slogan then was
'Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai.' Nehru saw it as a great betrayal. India was
totally unprepared to face its mighty neighbour. Critics described
his China policy as the biggest blunder of his career. During the
war his task was to keep the moral of his people and to see off the
unexpected military threat.
In those days of Nehru's
personal and national crisis,
Chaman Lal Chaman, a young
Indian journalist from the
Kenyan Broadcasting
Corporation arrived in Delhi
to report the war for the NRIs
living in Kenya and other East
African Countries. He managed
a rare scoop, a one-to-one
interview with Nehru,
something unheard in those
days.
History Talking presents that
historical interview,
broadcast on KBC on 4 November
1962
To listen
click here
(Hindi)
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