Voices

The Last Stylist

Tunku Varadarajan

From his sartorial elegance to linguistic flair to sexual charisma, Nehru was the aesthete-moderniser

His Honourable Son-in-Law

Yusuf Ahmad Ansari

The uneasy relationship between the proud Feroze Gandhi and the detached Jawaharlal Nehru

How the Pandit Lost the Valley

Sumantra Bose

It was in 1953 that Kashmir’s estrangement from the Indian Union began. Blame it on Nehru

Documentary Dictatorship

Sunil Raman

Shame: the Nehru Papers are still inaccessible to most Indian scholars and researchers

Theatrical Launch of a Hospital

Rajeev Masand

Airborne Disturbances • The Open Diary of a Resentful Mother

The Rescue Trap

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the absurdity of Shweta Basu spending two months in a rehabilitation home

1989: Between History and Memory

S Prasannarajan

The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world

Auteur Audacious

Thachom Poyil Rajeevan

Auteur Audacious The Malayalam film Njan (Myself) by Ranjith is one of this year’s most original films. Here, the novelist on whose work the film is based pays his tribute to the genius of his friend and collaborator Ranjith