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This Week in Explainers: Will the Congress really redistribute wealth if it takes power?

From Priyanka Gandhi saying Indira Gandhi donated gold for the benefit of the nation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the grand old party of wanting to ‘redistribute  wealth’, it seems the gloves are well and truly off for the Lok Sabha polls. But what’s the truth behind these claims? All this and much, much more in our weekly roundup

Mangalsutra row: The truth behind Priyanka’s claim on Indira Gandhi donating gold to the country

Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit back at PM Modi for claiming that under the party's rule, women’s mangalsutras wouldn’t be safe. The Congress general secretary said that her mother’s mangalsutra was sacrificed for the country, while her grandmother, Indira Gandhi, donated gold during the 1962 India-China war. How true are her claims?

'A Keralian is worth 1.8 Rajasthanis': Delimitation is the final barrier to real democracy in India

Nearly two centuries after England's Great Reform, India still has not returned to the principle of one person, one vote

Kangana Ranaut shares if she plans to become India's Prime Minister: ‘After watching Emergency, nobody will…’

Emergency is inspired by the infamous Indian Emergency and will see Kangana Ranaut essaying the role of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

France offers a welcome breather for India as New Delhi walks a diplomatic tightrope between US and Russia

In situations such as the ongoing Ukraine war, where India finds it hard to stand by its traditional friend Moscow, owing to complicated circumstances, it cannot also be seen as travelling with the US the whole hog

West needs to shed its colonial baggage and accept India as a global power

If the West wants a meaningful and constructive engagement with India, then it can’t be purely transactional based on a myopic approach, duplicity and colonial baggage

'Nehru thought Indians are lazy and less intelligent': PM Modi in Lok Sabha

Quoting excerpts from Nehru's speech, Modi said, 'Let me read what Prime Minister Nehru had said from the Red Fort. 'Indians generally do not have the habit of working very hard, we do not work as much as the people of Europe or Japan or China or Russia or America'

Ram temple in Ayodhya: Narendra Modi’s tryst with history

It is a travesty of justice that the Opposition leaders who repeatedly demonised Hinduism under the garb of secularism, have the audacity now to lecture the BJP on the Ram Mandir?

Why Muslims made a profound mistake over the Ayodhya dispute

The Muslim community missed an opportunity to open a dialogue that held the possibility of normalising Hindu-Muslim relations

As Bangladesh votes next week, a relook at how its relations with India have fared under Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown the highest level of interest in forging friendly and cooperative ties with India among all the other diplomatic partners of her country