history

An Objective History

Vinay Lal

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

The Limits of Leadership

Shashi Tharoor

Is the role of the individual in history overestimated?

The Sangh and Modernity

Ram Madhav

RSS is an idea that is still evolving

What’s Past is Prologue

Shashi Tharoor

Listen to the whispers of history and be warned

The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

Ullekh NP

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions

The Amritsar Massacre

VN Datta

An account of the carnage that shook the country in 1919, and wounded its consciousness

The Imperfect Queen

Ira Mukhoty

Jindan Kaur’s volatile relationship with the world

Pandemic Reflections

Ullekh NP

Vinay Lal gives historical context to our collective and individual responses to Covid

The Evolution of BJP

Swapan Dasgupta

A historical insight into the Vajpayee-Advani jugalbandi

Tenets of Trauma

Sudeep Paul

Narrative treatments of three 20th century catastrophes

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history

An Objective History

The Limits of Leadership

The Sangh and Modernity

What’s Past is Prologue

The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

The Amritsar Massacre

The Imperfect Queen

Pandemic Reflections

The Evolution of BJP

Tenets of Trauma

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