Holi 2003 at 7, Race Course Road was special. When Vajpayee came out onto the lawns to meet ministers and well-wishers, someone placed a pagri on his head. One by one, everyone smeared colours on his ...

WHY is Atal Bihari Vajpayee important? The answer seems to lie in the introduction to The Believer’s Dilemma, the recently-released second volume in Abhishek Choudhary’s two-part biography of the sage ...

The Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami paid rich homage to former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary. On this occasion, he offered floral ...

The second and concluding volume of Abhishek Choudhary's two-part biography on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hit the stands on July 20, announced publishing house Pan Macmillan India ...

New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Picador India will publish a two-volume definitive biography of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in April and December 2023, with Picador UK publishing a single ...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee spent six decades in politics, was among the strongest opposition voices for years before becoming the first man to be prime minister without ever joining the Congress. That ...

New Delhi: Statesman and pragmatist, orator and poet, a man of peace and conviction. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a towering nationalist who softened the often sharp edge of his party's politics with a ...

India's beloved former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee remained unmarried his entire life, but there was a time when he was proposed to by a woman, a Pakistani woman to be precise. On the late prime ...

However, the then-prime minister refused, stating that his becoming President by virtue of his majority would set a wrong precedent.

The biopic Main Atal Hoon explores the multifaceted personality of Atal Bihar Vajpayee. Known as the “Man of Steel with a Heart of Gold,” Vajpayee’s role as a politician extended beyond a statesman ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The literary world has lost two writers, including a celebrated poet. Andrea Gibson, who used the pronoun they, explored gender identity, ...