"Flashman cannot tell the truth to the Queen without offending her, he reminisces about the First Sikh War, 1845 and 1846, and how he acquired Koh-i-Noor (The Mountain of Light). At the end of events in ""Flashman's Lady"", Flashman is sent to India when the English are anticipating conflict with the Sikh Army, the Khalsa. He is dispatched by Major George Broadfoot to the Punjab, masquerading as a solicitor attempting to settle the Soochet legacy. Flashman becomes entangled in the intrigues of the Punjabi court before being forced to flee at the outbreak of war, then becomes involved in plans"
"Queen Elizabeth II. Each time, the British government rejected the claims, saying that ownership was non-negotiable. In 2000, several members of the Indian Parliament signed a letter calling for the diamond to be given back to India, claiming it was taken illegally. British officials said that a variety of claims meant it was impossible to establish the diamond's original owner, and that it had been part of Britain's heritage for more than 150 years. In July 2010, while visiting India, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said of returning the diamond, ""If you say yes to one"
"Most Impactful Woman of 2015 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright) in 2015. She has also been named Safe’s Global Hero of 2015, and a Global Thinker by ""Foreign Policy"". She lives in London, UK when not on assignments in places such as Copenhagen and India. ""India's Daughter"" was banned by the Indian government who were alerted to its 'undesirable nature' by a number of Indian feminists including Indira Jaisingh, Urvashi Bhutalia, Vrinder Grover, Kavita Krishnan, Dr Devaki Jain. The BJP government accused Udwin of"
"Shree by the President of India in 2005 for her service to the cause of public affairs. Her husband Anand Grover is a noted human rights lawyer and designated senior advocate of the Supreme Court. Indira Jaising Indira Jaising (born 3 June 1940) is an advocate. She is an Indian lawyer noted for her legal activism in promoting human right causes. In 2018 she was ranked 20th in the list of 50 Greatest Leaders of the World by Fortune magazine. She also runs an NGO with the name of ""Lawyers' Collective"", the license of which was permanently cancelled by the"
"that are directly effected by the 2013 decision have addressed the court in his manner. The petitioners are, NS Johar (dancer), Sunil Mehra (journalist), Ritu Dalmia (chef), Aman Nath (hotelier), and Ayesha Kapoor (business executive).The petition was not reviewed or added by the Supreme Court; stating that there are already petitions of the same nature that the court is reviewing at the moment, and advised the celebrities to wait till the decision is out before further pursuing this issue. While the discussion on homosexuality is happening in India, the below pride parades have been established in various major cities of"
"An advertisement in Variety magazine said: """"Appeal to James Cameron. Avatar is fantasy ... and real. The Dongria Kondh tribe in India are struggling to defend their land against a mining company hell-bent on destroying their sacred mountain. Please help the Dongria""."" Other celebrities backing the campaign include Arundhati Roy (the Booker prize-winning author), as well as the British actors Joanna Lumley and Michael Palin. Lingaraj Azad, a leader of the Save Niyamgiri Committee, said the Dongria Kondh's campaign was ""not just that of an isolated tribe for its customary rights over its traditional lands and habitats, but that of"
"Indira Jaising Indira Jaising (born 3 June 1940) is an advocate. She is an Indian lawyer noted for her legal activism in promoting human right causes. In 2018 she was ranked 20th in the list of 50 Greatest Leaders of the World by Fortune magazine. She also runs an NGO with the name of ""Lawyers' Collective"", the license of which was permanently cancelled by the Home Ministry for violations of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. The central government of India accused the NGO of using foreign funds in a manner not mentioned in the objectives of the NGO. However, the Bombay"
"in January 2015 raised questions on the censor board, saying movies like 'PK' insult Hindu religion and Lord Shiva as well. Swaroopanand Saraswati Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati (born 2 September 1924) is an Indian religious leader and freedom fighter. He was jailed for participating in Quit India Movement, and served two prison sentences in 1942. In 1973, he became the Shankaracharya (disputed) of Jyotir Math, Badrinath; in 1982 a court case was filed by him in Allahabad District court, in which he claimed himself the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math. He became the Shankaracharya of Dwarka peeth as well. Swaroopanand Saraswati"
"India Hicks India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967) is a former fashion model. She currently runs her eponymous lifestyle brand, which she founded in 2015. As of 2011, she is also 678th in line for the British throne. Hicks is the third child of Lady Pamela Mountbatten and David Nightingale Hicks, an interior designer of the 1960s and 1970s. Through her maternal grandfather, The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a second cousin to The Prince of Wales, who is also her godfather. Brought up in London and Oxfordshire, she attended Gordonstoun school in Scotland, until she was"
"that planning permission, £100,000 had been raised by the Trust, but a further £500,000 was needed and they sought to raise that by January 2015 in order to tie in with a planned visit to London by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi of India. The statue was unveiled by the Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 14 March 2015. It was dedicated as a commemoration of the centenary of Gandhi's return to India from South Africa, which is generally regarded as the commencement of his efforts for Indian independence. Speakers at the unveiling of the statue included Prime Minister of the"
"sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organisation, Survival International. Kumar, a recipient of the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award, settled in England in 1973. He lives a simple life in Hartland, Devon, with his partner June Mitchell, their son Mukti Kumar Mitchell, and their daughter Maya Kumar Mitchell. Prior to the 2015 UK general election, he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. Satish Kumar Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is"
"Lawyers Collective Lawyers Collective is an NGO in India which promotes human rights issues, especially issues relating to women's rights, HIV, tobacco, LGBT and parliamentary corruption in India. Lawyers collective was founded in 1981. Among its founders were Indira Jaising and Anand Grover. Lawyers Collective represented the Cancer Patients Aid Association in the landmark intellectual property case Novartis v. Union of India., opposing Novartis' patent for Glivec, a life-saving leukemia drug. The case has generated global attention for its impact on access to medicines worldwide. On 1 April 2013, Novartis' patent was rejected by the Supreme Court of India The"
"the committee member Anjali Bhagwat, but the accused met the then Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh to promote her case and also rubbished the lobbying allegations. The Ministry conducted a separate enquiry by Secretary of Department of Sports and decided not to increase the number of awards ""to maintain the stature of the awards"". Following an announcement, in August 2015, that tennis player Sania Mirza was to be awarded, a Public-Interest Litigation was filed in the Karnataka High Court. The petitioner, Paralympic athlete H. N. Girisha, mentioned that his performance was ignored by the committee. Girisha claimed to be a"
"likely renegades. In 2005, Sikh organisations such as the Bhai Kanahiya Jee Nishkam Seva Society demanded a deeper state inquiry into the details of the massacre and for the inquiry to be made public. In the wake of arrest of an Army officer for Malegaon blasts, Sikhs of J&K have demanded into the Chattisinghpora massacre. The massacre coincided with the visit of United States president Bill Clinton to India. In an introduction to a book written by Madeleine Albright titled """", she accused ""Hindu militants"" of perpetrating the act. Hindu organisations protested the statement, and ultimately the publishers, Harper Collins,"
"London Stock Exchange in 2010. A controversy erupted in early 2015, when the Indian Intelligence Bureau offloaded, without any stated reason, Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai from a London bound flight taking off from Delhi Airport. Pillai told the Guardian: Per Greenpeace, there are anywhere between 54-62 villages who depend on the forest for their lively hood, additionally, the Mahan forests, that the mining company plans to destroy by cutting down over 500,000 trees, houses hundreds of migratory bird species and wildlife. The project was first floated in 2006 and rejected in 2011, by the then Environment Minister who cited following"
"feared. Chief protesters include the opposition parties spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee and Socialist Unity Centre of India. The movement has received widespread support from civil rights and human rights groups, legal bodies, social activists like Medha Patkar and Anuradha Talwar, Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy and Magsaysay and Jnanpith Award-winning author Mahasweta Devi. Other intellectuals, writers like the poet Ruchit Shah, artists like Subhaprasanna, theatre and film personalities like Shaoli Mitra, Aparna Sen etc. have pitched in. The state police force has been used to restrict their access to the area. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen"
"to take the group’s activities underground. In 1980, the group consisted of Balakrishnan and seven female followers. The group lived together a various locations around south London. The group house was visited in 1997 by a news organisation seeking an interview which was refused. In 2013, the arrest of Balakrishnan and wife Chandra for suspicion of enslavement and domestic abuse marked the end of the group. The trial has become known as the Lambeth slavery case. After the arrest the three remaining women, Katy Morgan-Davies (Balakrishnan's daughter), Aisha Wahab and Josie Herivel were taken to safety. Balakrishnan was charged with"
"in the Delhi High Court, and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri Swaraj was one of the nine lawyers who represented him. The High Court restored Modi's passport in August 2014. In June 2015, British Member of Parliament Keith Vaz was reported to the parliamentary standards commissioner for lobbying UK immigration officials on behalf of Lalit Modi. It was revealed that Vaz had mentioned a recommendation from Sushma Swaraj (then an opposition leader) in his correspondence with the immigration officials. Modi's wife Minal was diagnosed with breast cancer during 2008–09, and was being treated in Portugal. In 2014, when requested"
"Padma Bhushan by the Indian government which is India's third-highest civilian award. An image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace. In February 2017 Kapoor, who is Jewish, was announced as the recipient of the USD$1 million Genesis Prize, which ""recognises individuals who have attained excellence and international renown in their fields and whose actions and achievements express a commitment to Jewish values, the Jewish community and the State of Israel"". Anish Kapoor was born in"
"24 June 2007 the Ulema Council joined with the Islamic Center of India, and the All India Sunni Board in sending a joint statement to the British High Commission in New Delhi condemning the knighthood. Besides the reactions of Home Secretary John Reid and Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett (see above), other UK politicians have expressed their view on the honour. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, a senior Labour Muslim peer, appealed to ministers to put the award on hold and told them that British Muslim business owners were attempting to organise a nationwide strike over the matter. Ahmed said ""I would"
"built over 67 community library and resource centers (READ Centers) in rural Nepal, India, and Bhutan. His work in the village of Ullon, West Bengal, India, has personal significance, and in 2016 India erected a 15-foot-high statue of him in a Garden of Inspirational Leaders in recognition of his humanitarian work in that country.[14] He has also worked extensively on humanitarian causes in Latin America and Africa, as well as in other countries in Asia.[15]. Rains suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and an associated hemorrhagic stroke in 2002 at the age of 61. Afterwards he was in critical condition for"
"of this country"". In January 2012, scholars from a Deobandi school issued a fatwa (religious edict) calling for the author Salman Rushdie to be barred from entering India to attend a literature festival because he had offended Muslim sentiments. In May 2010, clerics from a Deobandi school issued a fatwa stating that men and women cannot work together in public offices unless the women are properly clothed. In September 2013, scholars from a Deobandi school issued a fatwa banning photography as un-Islamic. The spread of the Deobandi movement in the United Kingdom has produced some criticism concerning their views on"
"in its 1991 judgement. An organization called ""Indian Young Lawyers Association"" filed a public interest litigation in 2006 but it didn't gain national prominence until January 2016 when the Supreme Court asked the Government of Kerala and Travancore Devaswom Board to submit their response with regards to temple entry issue. The case was finally referred to a five-member bench by Supreme Court of India in October 2017. This was around the same time when the Supreme Court of India had decided to uplift the restrictions barring entry of women to Haji Ali Dargah (a Muslim shrine which also restricts entry"
"Journal calling it a 'grand English estate' and a 'replica of Buckingham Palace"". For the last many years it has been the principal family home of the SINGH family, which traces its roots back to colonial India under the reign of Queen Victoria, Empress of India. During her reign 3 members of the SINGH family were knighted by the Queen for their service to the British empire. In recent years the house has played host to many statesman and political figures of the day. Lord Andrew Feldman of Elstree, ex Chairman of the Conservative Party, Rt Hon Boris Johnson, Foreign"
"the mine to the joint company. Since the BJP government came to power, the project has seen considerable support, and has been linked in the media for the Government actions against Greenpeace India. In January 2015, Priya Pillai, a Greenpeace campaigner very active in Mahan, was offloaded from a flight while she was to meet some British MPs inquiring into the matter. The issue is relevant to Britain since Essar Power is listed in the London Stock Exchange. This incident was seen In March 2015, the Ministry of Environment did not give a clearance for the project, and subsequently Ministry"
"on 28 May 2012 along with 100,000 signatures collected from India. None of the mercy petitions were granted. In 2009 British lawyer Jas Uppal started an online campaign ""freesarabjitsingh.com"" to highlight the case and request human rights groups to intervene on his behalf. Awais Sheikh, Singh's Pakistani lawyer, supported the campaign and provided his services free of charge. Bollywood actor and activist Raza Murad also campaigned for his release. As of June 2012, he had collected 138,226 signatures in support of Singh's release. After the Pakistani government's reversal regarding his release in June 2012, Murad intensified his 'Free Sarabjit' campaign."
"billion. She was also given the lead on Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist issues at the MPA. Aneeta was the youngest Asian female black belt karate instructor and she established and ran seven karate clubs in the UK. Aneeta is one of the people featured in the video produced by the UK Home Office and Freedom Charity to help raise awareness of the change in legislation on 16 June that made forcing someone into marriage a criminal offence. Honorary Doctor of Letters from the university of Winchester October 2015 London Evening Standard Progress 1000 Award - recognised as one of London's"
"slum, to share stories from organizations providing education to at-risk girls. Farrow has also participated in environmental activism, in 2014 protesting against Chevron, accusing the oil company of environmental damage in the South American rainforest. In February 1968, Farrow traveled to India, where she spent part of the year at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, studying Transcendental Meditation. Her visit received worldwide media attention because of the presence of all four members of The Beatles, Donovan, and Mike Love, as well as her sister Prudence Farrow. While she has been critical of the Roman Catholic Church"
"he received Pope Benedict XVI during his official visit to London on 18 September 2010. He was shortlisted with Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell for the Labour party's nomination to run for Mayor of London in May 2015, but lost to Khan. Dr Patil is from the Indian state of Karnataka. In 2008 he was awarded the ""Rajyotsava Award"" by the Government of Karnataka for promoting Accountable Democracy in India. Dr. Patil took the initiative to erect the statue of the 12th century philosopher and founder of Indian Democracy, Lord Basavanna installed at the Albert Embankment Gardens in the London"
"The House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Palace of Westminster, London – 20 March 2014 Acoustic version of Amazing Grace in the River Room within the House of Lords, in support of the Lily Foundation; a charity which works to combat human trafficking and child abuse in India – 15 July 2014. Navin was a headline performer at Wembley Stadium on 13 November 2015, on the occasion of Community Reception for Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. Navin performed for a second time for the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in Brussels to address the European Union (EU)"
"were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. On 27 January 2017 she wrote on Twitter """"The assassination is taking such a long time"""", referencing U.S. President Donald Trump in response to his executive order banning travel from 7 countries in the Middle East. India Knight India Knight (born 14 December 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is known for her contribution to the British media, as well as her books: ""My Life on a Plate"", ""Don't You Want Me?"", ""The Shops"", ""Neris and India's Idiot-Proof"
"2015 Priya Pillai offloading The Priya Pillai offloading of January 2015 was an incident in India where an environmental activist was offloaded from a flight in order to prevent her from testifying internationally on the activity of a firm registered in the UK. Later, the Ministry of Home Affairs (India) argued that her deposition before a British parliamentary committee would have been ""prejudicial to national interest"" In its judgment, the Delhi High Court observed that dissent ""may not be palatable; even so, it cannot be muzzled."" The incident has been widely discussed in India with a section of people suggesting"
"Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England since August 1972. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, bought the mansion from Sawai Man Singh, the Maharajah of Jaipur, in 1959 after meeting at a casino in London. The Maharaja needed to settle his gambling debts. Hubbard claimed in a subsequent lecture that he purchased the property for £58,000. He lived there with his family until early 1966 before moving abroad. Under Hubbard's ownership, the manor was extensively modified, with a series of extensions and new buildings constructed on the estate during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to"