Winston Churchill

The Left book of Indian political etiquette: In defence of Sudha Murthy

Sudha Murthy touching the feet of Sambhaji Rao Bhide has set off the powder keg of Leftist intolerance. A video or two of the incident soon went viral

A liberal self-goal on Rishi Sunak: Why India has nothing to prove to Britain on minorities

Rishi Sunak becoming prime minister is not a glowing display of a maturing democracy, as the Indian liberal brigade paints it to be, but more of something inadvertently slipping past the goalie, and an extremely vigilant goalie at that

Rishi remorse as Britain faces economic turmoil?

The UK is facing an economic crisis that will also have serious political consequences, potentially leading to public disorder

From Winston Churchill to Liz Truss, Queen Elizabeth II's 15 prime ministers

Queen Elizabeth II will ask the newly-elected Liz Truss to form a government on Tuesday, once Boris Johnson formally tenders his resignation

Lion Roars no More: Why the theft of a Winston Churchill portrait has left Canada in a tizzy

The photograph taken by Armenian-born Canadian Yousuf Karsh after Winston Churchill addressed Canadian Parliament in 1941 became a symbol of British defiance in World War II. It is one of the most iconic images of the wartime prime minister

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised as war communicator; labelled 'modern Winston Churchill'

It's all quite a development for a former TV actor and comedian who weeks ago was disdained in some corners as a political novice too eager to seek compromise with Moscow.

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy

The vilification of Bose by the Western elite, reeks of confirmation bias and politicisation of history. Any objective assessment of the move to install the icon's statue would recognise it as a long overdue political recognition

Winston Churchill's 1921 oil landscape, put up for auction by Onassis family, sells for $1.85 million

The Moat, Breccles, a signed 1921 oil landscape, went for within its pre-sale estimate price of between $1.5 million and $2 million.

Winston Churchill's painting owned by Angelina Jolie smashes auction record; sells for more than $11.5 million

The only painting that Britain’s wartime prime minister completed during the 1939-45 conflict, it was completed after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and US President Franklin D Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In a new book on partition, Marina Wheeler reconciles India's political struggle with personal histories

Using her mother's story as the primary source for the non fiction, the human rights lawyer and Queen's Counsel crafts a meaningful prose that describes India's struggle for political independence alongside her mother's quest for her own freedom.