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Behind the Story: TIME’s Krista Mahr Discusses How the Indian Government Became the Largest Employer in the World
In 2005, India launched one of the most ambitious social welfare programs in the world. Known as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
Blazing a Trail
Mohandas K. Gandhi, who lived from 1869 to 1948, could be said to have anticipated Marshall McLuhan, who lived from 1911 to 1980. McLuhan was the so-called...
How to Rule India: Break It Into More Pieces?
In mid-October 1952, an acolyte of Mahatma Gandhi named Potti Sriramulu invoked the tactics of his teacher and went on a hunger strike. The nation of India — at...
Forgiving Rajiv Gandhi's Assassin
The concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation are as old as religion itself. All the world's great faiths preach forgiveness, from Christianity's parable of the...
They're Sorry. So Sorry
It was a great week to watch famous people try to squirm out of bad situations. Pete Rose's confession that he bet on ball games came 14 years too late--and was...
Subcontinental Drift: Snappy Comeback
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2001 | The land of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru is being lectured on religious tolerance by Afghanistan's Taliban. For this, as with so...
'He's Up There With the Likes of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King'
Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2001 | The life of Indian leader Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was exceptional. Born in 1891 - - the 14th child of a schoolteacher -- he rose from...
Books: A Thousand Suns
The accomplished French author of the 1985 best seller The City of Joy recapitulates in honeyed prose more than a dozen stories he covered in his long career in...
Foreign News 1930: India: Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence In famed "Lahore the Golden," capital of the Punjab, ancient seat of the Mogul Sultan "Akbar the Magnificent," there stood on a...
Dropped Stitch
Mahatma Gandhi called the Singer sewing machine "one of the few useful things ever invented." Admiral Richard Byrd carted six Singers with him to the Antarctic...
