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freedom issue 2025
The Limits of Allegory
There are some who say ‘Jana Gana Mana' is sung in the raga Alhaiya Bilaval; there are others who believe it is in raga Gaud Sarang. It is neither but has some of their characteristics. This is the kind of freedom I have taken as a given
The Fugitive’s Tryst with Destiny
As I travelled around India by retracing the steps of my great-uncle who landed here 80 years before I did, the irony struck me: here I was, an Italian in India by choice, chasing the ghost of a dear relative who had been brought to Bombay in chains in December 1940 by the British
The Post-Imperial Hangover
Britain did not take easily to its diminished status after 1947. Britons loved the men that India had made of them. India held mythic status in the minds of upper-class Brits. Nothing quite like that has appeared to take India’s place
Requiem for the Gandhi Topi
After a brief revival, the cap that once adorned nearly every leader’s head is almost extinct
The Grace of the Guru
Sree Narayana Guru’s genius lay in offering a synergistic model for holistic human liberation. The three pillars of castelessness, education, and enterprise formed an unbreakable chain of progress
Digital Sovereignty
National autonomy will be lost and won at the altar of artificial intelligence and the odds are against democratic societies. There is a perfect storm coming from China. The price of India’s AI revolution is a permanent state of high alert
The Song of the Nation
National anthems, like national flags and independence days, are shortcuts to patriotism. Their elevation to iconic status makes them supersede their immediate contexts by becoming timeless emblems of peoples nations
Hasrat Mohani: Mystic As Rebel
A freedom fighter and poet with a grand vision for India, Hasrat Mohani—a communist, a devout Muslim who admired Tilak and worshipped Krishna, and the coiner of the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’—had called for ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule as early as 1921, a demand then rejected by Gandhi but endorsed many years later
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