Independence Day
Was Partition Inevitable?
Roderick Matthews
It was about human frailty: stubbornness, inexperience and ambition
Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater
The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction
Independence Day: Resurgence
America still reigns supreme, though there are throwaway concessions with a few Chinese and African characters included
Editor’s Note
It is Narendra Modi moment as one of democracy’s most popular leaders to play out the script of the India Ideal: the liberal state rising from the last wreckage of the socialist mind. Freedom is about daring—and he should know
THE FREEDOM ISSUE
S Prasannarajan • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Shashi Tharoor • Tunku Varadarajan • Shiv Visvanathan • Priyamvada Gopal • TM Krishna • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Aresh Shirali • Sonali Acharjee • Shreya Sethuraman
EDITOR’S NOTE
A political leadership that realises the sanctity of individual autonomy and the limits of the state is all the more relevant today
Liberators 2015
They are teachers and preachers, entrepreneurs and ecologists, students and dreamers. Their ideas make a difference in the life of others—for the better
Where the Mind Is with Fear
Our political and cultural freedoms began to be eroded from the day we became free
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