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Maratha Power

Swapan Dasgupta

Uday Kulkarni has single-handedly rescued history from the abdication of responsibilities by professional historians

The Architecture of Atonement

TCA Raghavan

What Germany could teach Pakistan about admitting genocide

Who Are We?

Anirudh Kanisetti

The past as a permanent struggle

The World Has a Ball

MJ Akbar

We could learn something from football. Break the law and there will be a stern penalty. That keeps the game credible

“Popular” History

Swapan Dasgupta

There is a thriving market in history books

Memory as Metaphor

Madhulika Liddle

Magic realism meets history in this retelling of Bangladesh’s origins

Delhi to Hyderabad

Madhulika Liddle

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

Ram Setu: The Shallow Sea Bridge

Madhavankutty Pillai

The underwater land strip between India and Sri Lanka shuffles between myth, history, commerce and, now, Bollywood

The Revision Fetish

Pallavi Aiyar

Does renaming streets or demolishing statues redeem history?

Dustbins of History

Swapan Dasgupta

What is deemed enormously significant at a particular time doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time

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history

Maratha Power

The Architecture of Atonement

Who Are We?

The World Has a Ball

“Popular” History

Memory as Metaphor

Delhi to Hyderabad

Ram Setu: The Shallow Sea Bridge

The Revision Fetish

Dustbins of History

MOst Popular

Why RSS is Right About Aurangzeb

The Big Baloch Question

Trump Is the New Nixon

UPA’s inaction on the drug menace had eroded society’s guardrails. We have fixed it: Amit Shah

Priyanka Bose: Time Does Tell

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