The wild onrush of individualism and the vanishing sense of national purpose. Can India avert a moral decline?
Mohan Bhagwat’s criticism of Mother Teresa and the debate that followed bring out the twisted logic of Indian liberals
Despite its vital historical role in the freedom movement, Champaran has been reduced to history textbooks
This village, where Gandhi put satyagraha to test for the first time in India, was until recently a crime haven. Signs of recovery are visible now
Gandhi used a temple agitation in Kerala to make it a larger movement for independence. The shrine of Shiva, an architectural marvel, continues to attract believers and nature lovers
When Indian soldiers defended what God abandoned and risked their life in the faraway fields of the First World War a century ago
How the novelist in her simplistic rhetoric on caste got Gandhi wrong