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Freedom Issue 2023

Essays by ~ Sumana Roy | Navtej Sarna | Shashi Tharoor | Dipankar Gupta | Swapan Dasgupta | TCA Raghavan | Carlo Pizzati | Ananya Vajpeyi | Kishan S Rana | Boria Majumdar | Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

04 Aug, 2023 - 11 Aug, 2023
Vol 15 | Issue 31

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Total Confidence in Modi

Rajeev Deshpande

What Modi did emphasise was the Centre’s concerted efforts to connect the Northeast to the rest of India in every way. He cast the spotlight on Congress policies that stoked separatism and led to prolonged civilian distress by way of blockades and strikes

The Chinese Connection: The Plot Thickens

PR Ramesh

The long trail of how China influences ideologically friendly media and activists in India—and a prominent figure in the nexus is a senior CPM leader

An Exceptional Tryst

Dipankar Gupta

India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit

BR Ambedkar: The Last Moralist

Shashi Tharoor

The relevance of an idea called Ambedkar

The Dharmic Quotient

Rajeev Deshpande

The trajectory of moral politics

Return to Jallianwala Bagh

Navtej Sarna

A novelist comes to the conclusion that the Amritsar massacre was not a discrete event

The Lost Dominion

Sudeep Paul

The forgotten United Bengal proposal and its lingering aftertaste

The Whispering Past

TCA Raghavan

Two historians at the intersection of race, sex and an emergent nationalism

Unfair Play

Kishan S Rana

Where was Winston Churchill’s statesmanship when it came to India?

The Passion of Pazhassi Raja

Ullekh NP

An 18th century Kerala king starred in the longest war waged against British forces in the subcontinent

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