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Freedom Issue 2021

Essays and Columns: Amit Chaudhuri, Tridep Suhrud, Sumana Roy, Tishani Doshi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, TCA Raghavan, MJ Akbar, Arvind Sharma, Shashi Tharoor, Swapan Dasgupta, Ram Madhav, Anuradha Roy, Ranjit Hoskote, Aman Nath

06 Aug, 2021 - 13 Aug, 2021

Vol 11 | Issue 94

75 Names of Freedom

Siddharth Singh and Amita Shah

Together, from north to south and east to west, they forged the iron framework of a social, cultural, political, economic, intellectual and educational foundation for the new nation of India

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Does democracy need a new management model?

The Idea of India

Swapan Dasgupta

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

The Rediscovery of Nehru

MJ Akbar

How Nehruvians revised their idol

The Eternity of Return

Amit Chaudhuri

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

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 Pursuits of the Past

TCA Raghavan

A problematic passage to the national soul

Losing Swaraj

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

The ideal as articulated by Gandhi and Tagore

National Marble

Ranjit Hoskote

A poem

The Pluralism of Hindutva

Arvind Sharma

The call is for unity, not uniformity

The Measure of Moditva

Shashi Tharoor

Does the ‘F’ word apply to India?

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