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Jawaharlal Nehru

Glimpses of Leadership

Madhav Khosla

The letters of India’s first Prime Minister to his chief ministers are lessons that are not always socialist in nation building

The Last Stylist

From his sartorial elegance to linguistic flair to sexual charisma, Nehru was the aesthete-moderniser

His Honourable Son-in-Law

The uneasy relationship between the proud Feroze Gandhi and the detached Jawaharlal Nehru

How the Pandit Lost the Valley

It was in 1953 that Kashmir’s estrangement from the Indian Union began. Blame it on Nehru

Documentary Dictatorship

Shame: the Nehru Papers are still inaccessible to most Indian scholars and researchers

1962: A Gandhian War

Nehru’s Forward Policy was built on Satyagraha

The Nehru You Never Knew

Sat Paul Sahni’s first book of photographs was published this year, three months after his death. A Godrej almirah full of slides still remains, as do despatches from four wars

Empire’s Legacy

Why hosting the Commonwealth Games does not imply disrespect for Indians who fought British imperialism. An extract

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