Lal Bahadur Shastri

Power Portraits

Ullekh NP

Neerja Chowdhury reveals the inner workings of six Indian prime ministers

Showcasing Democracy

Makarand R Paranjape

The future of the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library

NMML: All in a Name

Makarand R Paranjape

Is it time to call NMML the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library?

The Tranquil State of Freedom

Makarand R Paranjape

The aesthetics of Indian politics IV

India Through Slogans

PR Ramesh

The political art of mesmerising the mass mind with minimum usage of words

The Tashkent Man

Iqbal Malhotra

Was he Subhas Chandra Bose in disguise? An investigation

1965 War: The Last Gentlemen’s War

Maroof Raza

Indian pilots spared Pakistani civilians in the 1965 war that started after a wily Zulfikar Ali Bhutto instigated General Ayub Khan to send soldiers to create trouble in Kashmir. Fifty years later, the author revisits the war for lessons learnt and tales of bravery