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Freedom Issue 2024

MJ Akbar | Sumana Roy | Jerry Pinto | MJ Akbar | Carlo Pizzati | Swapan Dasgupta | Suhel Seth | Rami Niranjan Desai | Dipankar Gupta | Shashi Tharoor | TCA Raghavan | Peggy Mohan | Shylashri Shankar | Others…

02 Aug, 2024 - 09 Aug, 2024
Vol 3 | Issue 33

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

Rites of Freedom

S Prasannarajan

It takes a country like India, in its 78th year of Independence, to turn the arguments of freedom into a national urgency for change—without hurting democracy

India and the Two Wings of Pakistan

Swapan Dasgupta

Is there something in our DNA that makes our sense of freedom and democracy more enduring

Precious Mettle

Aditya Iyer

Vinesh Phogat was denied an Olympic medal. But not her legacy

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024): Soft Marxist

Sudeep Paul

His real legacy is making Bengal aspire for more and want to do better

Batting for Disability

Open

Khedkar’s eagerness to flaunt her ‘IAS’ status attracted attention and resulted in a closer scrutiny of her credentials

Bangladesh After the Fall of Sheikh Hasina

Syed Badrul Ahsan

As Islamists and BNP take centrestage, new questions arise about the forces behind the uprising

Dial D for Dhaka

Rajeev Deshpande

India seeks security for Hindus while hoping economic ties will prevail over populist politics

Towards Pakistan 2.0?

Rahul Shivshankar

Delhi cannot merely wait and watch

The Awakening

MJ Akbar

Few societies take more joy in freedom than contemporary India, but we did not get here by accident

Independence

Dipankar Gupta

A celebration in verse

Radical Departures

TCA Raghavan

How the shifting views of Tilak, Iqbal, Jinnah and Savarkar changed national destiny

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