In the grand narrative of Independent India, Lal Bahadur Shastri often occupies a curiously modest space, overshadowed by the ...

Lal Bahadur Shastri Death Anniversary 2024: Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the country's second Prime Minister from 1964 to 1966 and as its sixth Home ...

New Delhi: When Lal Bahadur Shastri set out to meet General Ayub Khan in 1966, a journalist asked how he would negotiate peace with the formidable, 6-foot-2 Pakistani president. To this ...

6 Shastri was no stranger to third-class travel. In fact, more than him, his mother and his wife had also been through these privations. No wonder then that in all his budget speeches as the ...

I do not know why the centenary celebrations of Lal Bahadur Shastri's birthday were on a low key. They came to end on October 2, his birthday. The central government allocated Rs 100 crore for the ...