The First Draft
An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions
30 April 2021
Imperial Inheritance
Has the empire been the default model for global governance?
21 August 2020
The Sword of Nehru
Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?
24 January 2020
Jallianwala Bagh: 100 years On
One hundred years between history and memory
28 March 2019
The Man and the Mahatma
A majestic biography focuses far more on Gandhi’s relations with opponents like Ambedkar and Jinnah than with his own favourite protégé Jawaharlal Nehru
27 September 2018
All for the Sake of Nehru
Jinnah’s Pakistan demand was more tactical than practical
10 May 2018
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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