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  JP movement: 38-year-old legacy hangs over Bihar polls

  Politics | October 15, 2015 16:44 IST

  “Why were you sitting next to the persons responsible for arresting JP?” Prime Minister Narendra Modi rhetorically asked rival Nitish Kumar during his Bihar election run.The 38-year-old JP Movement, or what is also known as

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  B'day Special: Remembering Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan (JP)

  Politics | October 11, 2015 12:37 IST

  New Delhi: October 11, 2015  is Jayaprakash Narayan's 103rd birth anniversary. Narayan was a great freedom fighter and one of the most revered political leaders of independent India.Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian independence activist, social

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  Top 5 Indian movements that galvanized the nation

  India | January 27, 2014 6:50 IST

  New Delhi: In the course of India's pre- and post-independence history, there have many movements in which millions of Indians took part. The movements were often successful, and occasionally unsuccessful.Here we list five such movements