Independence Day

Shivnath Jha: The Last Pursuit

Lhendup G Bhutia

The man has made it his mission to trace the bloodline of freedom fighters

Gour Hari Das: The Second Struggle

As a teenager, Gour Hari Das went to jail for the freedom movement, and then as an old man, spent 32 years trying to get the government to recognise his contribution

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

Independence Day speeches, Abir Mukherjee's crime thrillers and a visit to the Rashtrapati Bhavan

Freedom Issue 2017: Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

India at 70 is feeling what it means to be free

Dispatches from History

Aresh Shirali

The lesser known sites of pivotal relevance to our national experience

The Other Mutiny: 1946 Naval Rebellion

Pramod Kapoor

Spare a thought for the heroes of the 1946 naval rebellion

Partition: Lives Apart

TCA Raghavan

Three contrarian Partition stories: a Punjabi Muslim, a Frontier Pathan, and a sensationalist

Was Partition Inevitable?

Roderick Matthews

It was about human frailty: stubbornness, inexperience and ambition

Reclaiming Sivaganga

V Shoba

Memories of the first resistance

Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

Zareer Masani

The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction

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Independence Day

Shivnath Jha: The Last Pursuit

Gour Hari Das: The Second Struggle

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Freedom Issue 2017: Editor’s Note

Dispatches from History

The Other Mutiny: 1946 Naval Rebellion

Partition: Lives Apart

Was Partition Inevitable?

Reclaiming Sivaganga

Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

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