NCP’s best Lok Sabha tally was nine seats two decades ago but that never came in the way of Sharad Pawar being projected as a prime ministerial candidate. That image of the wily strategist has been shattered by Ajit Pawar’s departure
Uday Kulkarni has single-handedly rescued history from the abdication of responsibilities by professional historians
Aurangzeb’s persecution of Hindus provided the ethical and cultural premise for Shivaji’s rebellion
Nationalist tropes and imperial assumptions miss the Raj’s real economic impact
Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh offer lessons in dissent in our own time of churn