freedom struggle

Return to Jallianwala Bagh

Navtej Sarna

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

Sarojini Naidu: The Girl on the Swing

Makarand R Paranjape

Her zest for life was her armour against illness and adversity

The Politics of Art

Mukund Padmanabhan

A pictorial history of the freedom struggle

A Lexicon for New India

Ullekh NP

Deciphering the nature of the nation

Prayer and Protest

Chintan Girish Modi

Prayer and Protest: Two directors come together to dramatise Tibet’s struggle

Delhi to Hyderabad

Madhulika Liddle

A historical novel traces how the nizam’s state acceded to India

Gandhi’s Sacrifice

Ram Madhav

Jinnah scored because the Mahatma was abandoned by his own men

Mapping the Hindu Mind

Rajshree Chandra

Understanding VD Savarkar’s political thought through his idea of history

‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’

Ullekh NP

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

BR Ambedkar: Flawed Genius

Shashi Tharoor

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