Indian women may have made their mark in several fields of excellence. Newer horizons are still waiting for them. Are they up to it?

Freedom according to an Emergency child

This village, where Gandhi put satyagraha to test for the first time in India, was until recently a crime haven. Signs of recovery are visible now

India’s political and cultural life is still subservient to borrowed ideas

India according to a freedom child

It was the other Dandi, led by C Rajagopalachari. Salt manufacturing in this coastal town of Tamil Nadu is in a crisis

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

Time to strike a balance between justice and prosperity

It is Narendra Modi moment as one of democracy’s most popular leaders to play out the script of the India Ideal: the liberal state rising from the last wreckage of the socialist mind. Freedom is about daring—and he should know

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

India according to a liberalisation child