India might have awakened to ‘life and freedom’ at the stroke of the midnight hour separating 14...

Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj is grounded in Dharma, which is often but inadequately translated as...

'The Promises We Made' is a romantic novel written by Rohan Jain, an IIT Kanpur (2011-15) and IIM...

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

After China banned the opium trade, Parsis diversified into the cotton and jute-manufacturing...

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Thomas Macaulay famously articulated his colonial prejudice: “A single shelf of a good European...

Mrinal Talukdar’s new book Post-Colonial Assam (1947-2019) covers 72 years of Assam’s political...

There are certain works that at first glance promise to bring a bombastically controversial and...

It is now 24 years since Morarji Desai passed away, on 10 April 1995. The younger generation may not...

India’s post-Independence history, which is still not taught in schools and colleges, presents...