Jallianwala Bagh

Calming the Democracy

MJ Akbar

The end of surprise and Rahul’s forays into incomprehension

Return to Jallianwala Bagh

Navtej Sarna

A novelist comes to the conclusion that the Amritsar massacre was not a discrete event

‘I want to treat facts of history as sacred,’ says Navtej Sarna

Nandini Nair

Navtej Sarna’s new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction

The Enigma of Udham Singh

Vinay Lal

Jallianwala Bagh and the solitude of revenge

Seeking Truth with Tagore

Shashi Tharoor

Thoughts on the uses of his ideas on the eve of his 80th death anniversary

The Amritsar Massacre

VN Datta

An account of the carnage that shook the country in 1919, and wounded its consciousness

The Malabar Angle

Madhavi Thampi

A singular fight against the Empire

Archbishop of Canterbury: Taking a Stand by Falling Flat

Stephen David

Justin Portal Welby’s actions in Jallianwala Bagh must spur his sphere of influence to go beyond pulpit pontifications

From Margin to Centre

Nonica Datta

Jawaharlal Nehru hailed the Amritsar Congress as the first ‘Gandhi Congress’. It was in 1919 that the young Jawaharlal became Gandhi’s lieutenant and organised relief work in the Punjab. Thus began one of the most critical and longest political partnerships of modern India