Ira Mukhoty
The perils of a binary reading of sources at odds with a complicated reality
On the anniversary of the naval mutiny, remembering how Utpal Dutt’s 1965 play memorialising the event had landed him in jail
Ramachandra Guha’s new book portrays seven westerners who joined India’s freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s rebels and the meaning of patriotism
The linear narrative of India’s freedom struggle and its unrealised possibilities