India

Footprints of Struggle

Ullekh NP

With the aim of narrating history through the present, our reporters visit Champaran in Bihar, Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh, Dandi in Gujarat, Vaikom in Kerala, and Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu to report the various phases of freedom struggle

Not Worth Your Salt Anymore

Lhendup G Bhutia

Gandhi’s march here was one of the most dramatic moments in Indian history. The villagers today want to march out

“The World Is at My feet”

As told to Gunjeet Sra

India according to a liberalisation child

An Equal Faith

MG Radhakrishnan

Gandhi used a temple agitation in Kerala to make it a larger movement for independence. The shrine of Shiva, an architectural marvel, continues to attract believers and nature lovers

Shaky Hands

Kumar Anshuman

The alliance between Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad is beset with contradictions. The anti-BJP camp in Bihar is hoping against hope that it will survive

RIGHT OF PASSAGE

PR Ramesh

Modi’s little reforms that make a big ideological statement—and all those endangered sacred cows

Disgruntled and Dangerous

Lhendup G Bhutia

They were once the flag bearers of saffron power. Denied rewards in the form of positions in the Government or special notes of appreciation from the Prime Minister, these worthies today spell more trouble than comfort for the NDA regime