politics

The Gujarat Moral

S Prasannarajan

The campaign for Modi is a rite of thanksgiving as well

Hindutva and History

Shashi Tharoor

The struggle for a nationalist halo

The Prime Minister Who Never Was

Gautam Chikermane

Pranab Mukherjee’s many adventures in managing interests and egos to stabilise coalition politics

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Imagining the Idea of Indianness in Hindi cinema

Rachel Dwyer

The national scene

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

A lucky economist, a chief justice's love for publicity and a chief minister's drunken words

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar

Kameshwar Chaupal: The First Kar Sevak

Rahul Pandita

Kameshwar Chaupal, now 61, recounts the exact moment he was called onto the stage in Ayodhya with Sangh Parivar stalwarts and told that he would lay the first brick at the construction site of the proposed Rama temple