Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Bengali Anglophilia

Swapan Dasgupta

It was grafted on local tradition and culture

The Moral Realist

MJ Akbar

Gandhi’s sympathy for Jews did not blind him to injustice against Arabs

The Archipelago of Nationalism: What’s in a Name?

Rajeev Deshpande

A lot. Naming twenty-one Andaman islands after fallen war heroes is part of the Prime Minister’s project to bind the remote archipelago to a nationalist narrative

Calcutta, As It Was

Swapan Dasgupta

Lord Curzon’s enduring monument to the British Raj

75 Names of Freedom

Siddharth Singh and Amita Shah

Together, from north to south and east to west, they forged the iron framework of a social, cultural, political, economic, intellectual and educational foundation for the new nation of India