Indian history

Nehru vs Patel: Unity in Diversity

Shashi Tharoor

Let Narendra Modi too bring Nehru and Patel together in his vision for India

Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

Swapan Dasgupta

Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen

The Uses and Abuses of What-if History

S Prasannarajan

A past powered by the Dissenting Strongman and the Dreamy Intellectual enriches the legacy of freedom—and the political content of the present

Nehru Vs Patel: Dissimilar Disciples, Common Cause

Ullekh NP

Gandhi’s close allies Nehru and Patel had huge differences but they were not the opponents often made out to be

Vallabhbhai Patel: Iron in the Soul

Siddharth Singh

The unifier of India deserves better from his country

Padmaavat Movie Review

Ajit Duara

The sheer pointlessness of this movie - as entertainment, as quasi-history, as fairy tale, and as a contemporary political tool - is flabbergasting

The Power of Absurdity

Madhavankutty Pillai

Karni Sena and the nature of the agitating beast

Lost in the South

Nanditha Krishna

Charles Allen’s south Indian journey misses many historical moments

The Beauty of Indic Thought

Ram Madhav

A profound quest for eternal bliss that is yet to take its rightful place in the world

Padmavati: History as a Dispute

Siddharth Singh

Blasts from the past strike modern India with unfailing regularity. The controversy over Padmavati focuses on the fact that what endangers freedom is the politicisation of protest in the name of freedom