MIKE Brearley, one of the game's greatest captains of all time, was in India last week for ITC's 'The Winning Edge Series' lectures. A trained psychotherapist and author of the best -selling book, The Art of Captaincy, the 55-year-old former England
A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.