Jawaharlal Nehru

Requiem for the Gandhi Topi

Lhendup G Bhutia

After a brief revival, the cap that once adorned nearly every leader’s head is almost extinct

Half a Legacy

Pramod Kapoor

Partition was a division of not just land but a shared civilisation down to its files, flags, furniture and even postage stamps

Anomaly at Midnight

MJ Akbar

Pakistan was created by a tortured argument which diminished a universal faith, Islam, into parochial nationalism. Within a decade, Pakistan had degenerated into a 'jelly state'

Footnote in Political Life

Swapan Dasgupta

It is not very often that relations between India and another country gets the attention of Parliament

Hard Power at Play

Minhaz Merchant

India has launched a proactive defence doctrine with Operation Sindoor

The Lost Nehru Papers

PR Ramesh

Examines the legal and political storm over the private papers of India’s first prime minister and why they remain at the heart of a battle for legacy and control

The Word of Politics

S Prasannarajan

The Myth of the Socialist Secular Republic

Non-Aligned India

TCA Raghavan

Three seminal chapters in diplomatic history

A historic blunder that gave Pakistan the upper hand on Indus waters

Uttam Sinha

In his well researched book, scholar and author Uttam Sinha brings out in fascinating detail how senior Cabinet minister N V Gadgil differed with Jawaharlal Nehru over the giving Pakistan too much leeway in sharing river waters after the 1947-48 war. Extracts follow: