Nayantara Sahgal

There are absences that time does not fill. His is one of them.

Nehru laid the foundation for democracy, a self-reliant economy and secularism. Let his legacy not be squandered.

Why harp on Varun's lineage when he has abandoned its ideals?

South Africa remembers the apartheid era in a way we can learn from. A country that forgets its past forgets the ideals it is founded on.

Nayantara Sahgal turned 13 in 1940

We will never progress if we allow the closed mind to take open charge

Writers must speak on the louring sameness born of extremism and market

We can't do without the unique angle of vision that geography lends to literature

Two short extracts, one from the celebrated author's novel, From Fear Set Free, and the other from a letter to her mother Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, then ambassador to the Soviet Union