A House for Mr Gandhi

Reimagining Her Majesty’s Club

Don't rule out a Meghan touch to the Commonwealth

Mumbai Notebook

Nehru vs Patel: Unity in Diversity

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

Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

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

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

Indraprastha

Nehru's capitulation, Google Maps' misguidance and Rahul Gandhi's naivete

Nehru Vs Patel: Dissimilar Disciples, Common Cause

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

The unifier of India deserves better from his country

Dissenting Note

Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel is a meditation on an India that’s short on Nehruvian idealism