Tracing the evolution of India’s unique identity

Was he a nasty imperialist or a British patriot?

Sandeep Bamzai provides a balanced perspective of Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in envisaging a united and unified India

Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

What does Islam mean to Indians, Muslim and non-Muslim

An account of a proud Indian Muslim who occupied the highest offices

Being and belonging according to Shashi Tharoor

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

A magisterial survey of India’s volatile growth story

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…