Gandhi visits Srinagar and insists the people, not the ruler, should decide the future; Nehru submits the list of the first Cabinet of free India to Mountbatten

FOR a nation learning to walk, Nehru was guide, philosopher and king

If we have one shared turf of experience, it's Hindi cinema. And since all the radio ga-ga over Pataudi's swishing blade, cricket's been our unofficial adhesive

In the Great Indian Tea Ceremony, you might see something very strange going on under the ghoonghat across the table, but must never say anything in public

Trips down memory lane become the predicament of a nation entering puberty

Frittered into sundry insular herds, many of us have nothing to celebrate

The older generation is tired, the new does not connect. Freedom is a given.

A long love affair with his camera and trains led champion dilettante GARNEY NYSS to travel all over India the '40s and photograph Indian cities. result—a dusty black-and-white portfolio of the Indian metropolises, meticulously preserved. "I never th

The light did shine at midnight, but there's been enough darkness at high noon.

Remember Papa's big talk of milk and honey and 10 paisa biriyani? He was bang on...

Jallianwala Bagh, Chauri Chaura and Sabarmati revisited

Was the free India envisaged in 1947 a delusion? How is 1997, in form and essence, a different set of realities? The icons speak...

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