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Friday, November 15 2024

Moments that changed the world: Gandhi’s eviction from a South African train

by Global Indian | Jun 10, 2021

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...

Free speech vs law of the land: The Twitter-New Delhi spat

by Global Indian | May 28, 2021

(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...