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India’s partition

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

Across the Line

Hormis Tharakan

A richly rewarding portrait of the subcontinent through personal stories

Language Outreach

Gillian Wright

Urdu claims its rightful place as a voice of the people

A Wounded Memory

Poorna Swami

Crossing the border all over again in the mind

Gurinder Chadha: ‘The future will be bilingual and bicultural’

Nikhil Taneja

Gurinder Chadha brings a British Punjabi perspective to history

Trauma of Partition: Divided Lives

Georgina Maddox

Returning to the trauma of Partition

A Movement Revisited

Ram Madhav

The independence struggle as a narrative of the highs and lows of our national will

Partition Narratives and National Projects

Anam Zakaria

Hell is the other, still

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