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A tribute to Chandrashekhar

Former Indian prime minister Chandrashekhar 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
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Part Two
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Pravasi Diwas 2007, Votes for NRIs and a PIO Uni

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.  

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Level playing field for all including Mittal 
Paswan: "Steel industry in India aims for rise in production, quality and competitiveness."

Ram Vilas Paswan (Right)

 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.

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Health insurance for 250 million poor in India
Paswan on new pharmaceutical policy

Government of India will shortly introduce a Health Insurance Scheme under which 250 million poor people will get free medicines, the Minister for Chemicals, Fertilizer and Steel, Ram Vilas Paswan said here last night. "Under the scheme, which is currently before the Cabinet, Government would spend about Rs.3000 crores per annum to provide free medicines to 250 million people below the poverty line," Paswan told newsmen at a press conference held at the India House, London on 15 Sept 2006. 

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New BJP President Rajnath Singh on his priorities 
'Corruption and  indiscipline won't be tolerated'

In an exclusive interview with Vijay Rana the new BJP president Rajnath Singh spells out his priorities. He says corruption and indiscipline in the party  will not be tolerated. He brushed aside the reports of intra-party feuds among the second line of leadership as opposition propaganda. And to strengthen the NDA he has invited Mamta Bannerjee of Trinamool Congress  to put up a united front against ruling Communists in  the coming elections in West Bengal.

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Rajnath Singh, the new BJP President

Why speaker Somnath Chatterji is ashamed?

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 India

In this rare and 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

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.'
History Talking.com finds a rare interview of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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