Cover Stories

Ten Mutually-Contradictory Counterfactuals

Akhil Katyal

Poem

Release

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Poem

Syama Prasad Mookerjee: The One Who Saw the Future

Rajeev Deshpande

More than sixty years after his death, Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s position on Kashmir has been vindicated and his critique of the Nehruvian order is redefining the idea of Indian nationhood

‘You Feel Connected in Some Deeper Way to the Country. There’s This Bond, a Kind of Patriotism, that Fills You Up’

Lhendup G Bhutia

Sushil Kumar Kaul Arazbegi, retired corporate executive, Thane

1942: An Indian Tragedy

Sudeep Paul

The price we paid for the failure of the Cripps Mission eighty years ago

A Whiff of Deradicalisation

Rahul Pandita

The new liberal voices that speak of a different freedom in Kashmir

The Journey of the Indian Flag

Madhavankutty Pillai

The Tricolour remains a guide to the country and has become increasingly more accessible

Asaf Ali’s Haveli

TCA Raghavan

The hidden history of a girls’ primary school in Old Delhi

Inspirational India

Antara Raghavan

The result of India gaining its independence was that it signalled a widespread change in the attitude towards colonial rule

The Rediscovery of India

PR Ramesh

Modi has shown the country how to dream big and believe in itself and that there is no contradiction between owning an ancient civilisational heritage and becoming a 21st century technological power