TheVox Populi
Gandhi visits Srinagar and insiststhe people, not the ruler, should decide the future; Nehru submits the list ofthe first Cabinet of free India to Mountbatten
Khushwant Singh
SwarajIs My Birthright
FOR a nation learning to walk, Nehru was guide,philosopher and king
N.J. Nanporia
TheRites Of Passage
Shastri and Gulzarilal Nanda, the men who wouldn'tbe 'king'
Arvind N. Das
JourneyInto Twilight
MIDNIGHT'S Child came of age in India in a strangeworld
Iqbal Masud
ForWhom The Bell Tolls
Sectarian ambitions and the AK-47 create an era ofinsecurity
Vinod Mehta
TheAge Of Paradox
Consumerism and the TV revolution go hand in handwith Hindu revivalism
Mukul Kesavan
CineQua Non!
If we have one shared turf of experience, it's Hindicinema. And since all the radio ga-ga over Pataudi's swishing blade, cricket'sbeen our unofficial adhesive
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Soutik Biswas
Indiapolis:Memories Of Space
A long love affair with his camera and trains ledchampion dilettante GARNEY NYSS to travel all over India the '40s and photographIndian cities. result—a dusty black-and-white portfolio of the Indianmetropolises, meticulously preserved.
Vikram Chnadra
AKama Chakkar
In the Great Indian Tea Ceremony, you might seesomething very strange going on under the ghoonghat across the table, but mustneversay anything in public
Gautam Bhatia
LookBack In Awe
Trips down memory lane become the predicament of anation entering puberty
Sanjeeve Saith
ConstructedHistories: A Question Of Violence
Jallianwala Bagh, Chauri Chaura and Sabarmatirevisited
Inder Malhotra
StormToss'd
The light did shine at midnight, but there's beenenough darkness at high noon.
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Manjula Padmanabhan
ACosmic Taj
Frittered into sundry insular herds, many of us havenothing to celebrate
Tarun J. Tejpal
InOur Time
The older generation is tired, the new does notconnect. Freedom is a given.
AWounded Civilisation
Was the free India envisaged in 1947 a delusion? Howis 1997, in form and essence, a different set of realities? The icons speak...
