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Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

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

Nehru Vs Patel: Dissimilar Disciples, Common Cause

Ullekh NP

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

Siddharth Singh

The unifier of India deserves better from his country

Dissenting Note

Devapriya Roy

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

Do Men in Power Behave Badly?

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The Political and the Phallic

The Echo of the Russian Revolution in India

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

An October in Memory

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

Nikhil Taneja

Gurinder Chadha brings a British Punjabi perspective to history

Was Partition Inevitable?

Roderick Matthews

It was about human frailty: stubbornness, inexperience and ambition

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