India’s partition

A South Asian Summer in London

Rachel Dwyer

Khushwant Singh and other festival delights and diversions

Many Partitions

Jai Arjun Singh

Krishna Sobti’s novelised memoir is a testament to the great writer’s formal inventiveness

One India, One Man

Rajshree Chandra

Rediscovering Patel as unifier and assimilator

Who’s Afraid of Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

TCA Raghavan

Let him not divide India further

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