Global Indian
Moments that changed the world: Gandhi’s eviction from a South African train
What and When Mahatma Gandhi was unceremoniously evicted from the first-class carriage of a train in South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg on the night of June 7, 1893, for being a person of color. How Gandhi was on his way from Durban to Pretoria in the train when a...
Mandeep Kaur: Single mom who rose from door-to-door sales to NZ’s first female Indian-origin cop
Many women give up on their childhood dreams especially if they had a failed marriage and single mother responsibilities. Not 52-year-old Mandeep Kaur. Hers is a story of grit, determination, perseverance and eventual glory: A girl who could barely speak English...
Free speech vs law of the land: The Twitter-New Delhi spat
(Our Bureau, May 28) Twitter and New Delhi are involved in a war of words over scuttling free speech amid the American company’s non-compliance of India’s new social media intermediary norms. In a statement yesterday, Twitter accused the Centre of “dangerous...