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Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

Swapan Dasgupta

Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen

The Uses and Abuses of What-if History

A past powered by the Dissenting Strongman and the Dreamy Intellectual enriches the legacy of freedom—and the political content of the present

The Pull of Realpolitik

On the future of AAP after three years of ruling Delhi

Nehru Vs Patel: Dissimilar Disciples, Common Cause

Gandhi’s close allies Nehru and Patel had huge differences but they were not the opponents often made out to be

Modi’s Single Ballot Solution

The bold proposal of holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together confounds the opposition

Populists at Play

The East explains the new Western insurgency

Indraprastha

Ministers under Modi's watch, the food that MPs get to relish and the numerology of power

Faith and Fury in Mangaluru

Mangaluru in southern Karnataka is one of the strongholds of Hindutva’s militant fringe. As Assembly elections loom, the cause celebre is love jihad

Open Diary

For warmer ties with Australia and open minds on period cinema

Who’s Afraid of a Caricature?

The Trump problem is more a crisis of aesthetics than an imminence of madness

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