Jawaharlal Nehru

Arun Jaitley: The Renovator

Swapan Dasgupta

The Race for Happiness in the Age of Irrational Exuberance

In Search of a Cure for Taxophobia

The Four Canons of Taxation outlined in Adam Smith’s 1776-published classic, The Wealth of Nations, still make for a superb set of first principles

Why He Still Matters

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MJ Akar • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Sunanda K Datta-Ray •Tunku Varadarajan • Priyamvada Gopal • Madhav Khosla • Yusuf Ahmad Ansari • Sumantra Bose • Sunil Raman

A Portrait of the Statesman as Reconciler

Harish Khare

Bharat Ratna or not, Atal Bihari Vajpayee matters more in the age of Narendra Modi

Homeless in Allahabad

PR Ramesh

In his hometown, Nehru is an outsider who has little relevance beyond the arcana of history

The Clever Panditji and the Emotional Netaji

Swapan Dasgupta

Nehru bided his time and came out trumps. Bose rebelled against the mainstream and found himself as an unsuccessful De Gaulle

Return of the Colonial Mind

Priyamvada Gopal

How Hindu majoritarianism has undermined the Nehruvian legacy

First a Democrat, Then a Socialist

MJ Akbar

What would Nehru have done if he were alive today, amidst the war between modernity and religiosity?

Bigger than the Sum of his Imperfections

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

He did a far better job of gaining knowledge of the larger sweep of history than any of his contemporaries. The confidence with which we condemn Nehru exposes the narrowness of our certainties more than it detracts from his achievements