Minhaz Merchant
Five points to keep in mind in tackling communal polarisation
India has survived all the stresses and strains that have beset it for over seven decades because it maintained consensus on how to manage without consensus
Why we must guard against vilifying leaders based on a warped understanding of history
Shashi Tharoor’s latest book, Ambedkar: A Life, dwells on the scholar-politician’s trials and tribulations, achievements and associations, and his differences with leaders of the stature of Gandhi and Nehru
In a new biography of Ambedkar, Shashi Tharoor gets a measure of the constitutionalist and nation-builder, contending that an honest survey of Ambedkar’s life and its impact needs to also look at those faults for which he can be legitimately criticised without taking away from his greatness