Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen

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Modi has used the Union Budget to create the architecture of an India where India and Bharat can begin to complement each other

For warmer ties with Australia and open minds on period cinema

A Rajya Sabha speech that wasn't made, the festive spirit, and the world's best mango chutney

The trouble with trade talks, European attitudes towards the Modi dispensation, Christmas as a food festival and the rise of rightwing intellectual spaces

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

The bad journalism of NYT and the good news from Zimbabwe

High-key sexual harassment charges and the low-key centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution 

A visit to the UN, the Oxbridge and the EU dilemma