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‘I want to treat facts of history as sacred,’ says Navtej Sarna

Nandini Nair

Navtej Sarna’s new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction

Our History Wars

Makarand R Paranjape

Hindutva and Swaraj VII

KR Meera: The Rebel’s Credo

Aditya Mani Jha

KR Meera’s latest novel blends mythology and history. The Malayalam author tells Aditya Mani Jha about creating strong women characters and the lure of the Bible

A Wounded History

Makarand R Paranjape

Hindutva and Swaraj VI

Stories Show the Way

Janice Pariat

Walking the historical David Scott trail in Meghalaya brings together the past and the present

Crimson City

Madhulika Liddle

To follow in the footsteps of real and imagined characters in Old Delhi is to discover its cosmopolitan nature

The Discovery of Independent India

Amita Shah

Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya is a rich trove of the country’s political history as seen through its 14 past prime ministers

Isabel Allende: The Reckoning

Sharanya Manivannan

Isabel Allende’s new novel is about a woman steeped in history

Borderland or Bloodland?

Sudeep Paul

Geography as the determinant of Ukraine’s violent history

Revisionist History

Swapan Dasgupta

History is devoid of meaning if the context is taken out of events

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