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By Hazel Gandhi The Asian Games is one of the largest multisport competitions in the world, only second after the Olympics. The first edition in 1951 was hosted by India in New Delhi, marking a new dawn of sports and recreation for the Asian continent following the end of the Second World War. The combined efforts of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian representative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Guru Dutt Sondhi, the first secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Anthony de Mello, and Patiala's Maharaja Yadavindra Singh led to the formation of ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A childhood photo of Jawaharlal Nehru with his mother Swarup Rani is being shared while misidentifying her as a Muslim woman named Rahman Bai. BOOM found that the claims are false and the photo shows Nehru with his mother and Motilal Nehru's wife, Swarup Rani. The claims play into the baseless conspiracy theory that Nehru's father Motilal Nehru had five wives including Swarup Rani, one of them being Rahman Bai. The photo is viral with the text, "A YOUNG J L NEHRU WITH HIS MOTHER THUSSU RAHMAN BAI His mother was Thussu Rahman Bai (Motilal Nehru's second wife). Nehru's Grand Fath...
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By Archis Chowdhury An old archival video showing India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arriving in London, is being shared with the claim that he is seen being enrolled as a 'Citizen of London', and that he swore an oath to late Queen Elizabeth II. Several posts sharing the video took a jibe at Nehru, and questioned the status of his Indian citizenship. Some users even claimed that Nehru had become a British citizen after this 'enrollment'. BOOM found this claim to be misleading and taken out of context; while Nehru was given the honour of 'Freedom of the City of London', and enrolled...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image showing three Indian football players walking barefoot in the football field during the 1948 London Olympics is being shared with the claim that their loss to France during the Olympics was due to the fact that India could not afford to buy their football players shoes to play with. The post is shared with the aim of taking a dig at the Gandhi-Nehru family, who helmed Indian politics post-Independence. BOOM found this claim to be false; looking through archives of news reports from the Olympics, along with more recent reports about India's first appearance in the O...
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