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Speak, History

TCA Raghavan

Returning to the broken fragments of the 1990s to understand the China-driven churn of the present

Between Independence and Freedom

MJ Akbar

The ideal pursuit

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

The dispute over freedom remains unresolved

The Ram temple offers itself as an opportunity for a new generation to think for themselves about this wave of history and faith that has washed in, sweeping away a great amount of historical angst and refuse

Return to the Ideal City

Bibek Debroy

There was no room for falsities in the welfare state of Rama as depicted in the epic

The Original Existential Hero

Arshia Sattar

We stay with Rama-the-human because of his resemblance to us

A Year in the Life of Ayodhya

Kanchan Gupta

Events that have followed the Ram Rath Yatra of 1990, culminating in August 2020, are a collective testimony to LK Advani’s strategic thinking

Modi Redeems a Sacred Pledge in Ayodhya

Swapan Dasgupta

What the Ram Temple does is to link nationhood to a deeper and longer perspective, incorporating INDIA’S entire cultural inheritance, from antiquity to the present

Modi, Ram and the Temple

S Prasannarajan

It was as if political Hinduism’s first citizen wanted to liberate Ram from the aggressions and grievances of Hindutva, and dedicate him to the nation