Cover Stories

National Marble

Ranjit Hoskote

A poem

Losing Swaraj

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

The ideal as articulated by Gandhi and Tagore

The Pursuits of the Past

TCA Raghavan

A problematic passage to the national soul

Calcutta on August 15, 1947

Tridip Suhrud

‘Hindus were in Muslim localities and Muslims were in Hindu areas, as if nothing had ever happened! Everyone said that all this was due to Gandhi Baba’

The Eternity of Return

Amit Chaudhuri

India excites not because of its national history, but because of the kind of text it is

The Rediscovery of Nehru

MJ Akbar

How Nehruvians revised their idol

The Idea of India

Swapan Dasgupta

The points of friction lay in defining Indian identity or grasping the so-called idea of India

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Does democracy need a new management model?

The Art of Eating

Kaveree Bamzai and Lhendup G Bhutia

How Pandemic has changed our food habits

The Pakoda Economy Checks In

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s digital drive and cash transfers are helping the bottom half of the Indian pyramid climb up the economic ladder despite the pandemic