Zareer Masani
Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future
The unravelling of secular intellectualism, from Kashmir to Ayodhya
The citizens of Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian India often attempted to justify their vulnerability by claiming to be preoccupied with loftier things
By the way, were Indira and Nehru anti-federal because they held all elections on a single day?
India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit
Defenders of the idea of a Uniform Civil Code had hoped it would become a reality but the divisions seen in the Constituent Assembly took a turn for the worse in subsequent decades