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Partition was a division of not just land but a shared civilisation down to its files, flags, furniture and even postage stamps
As I travelled around India by retracing the steps of my great-uncle who landed here 80 years before I did, the irony struck me: here I was, an Italian in India by choice, chasing the ghost of a dear relative who had been brought to Bombay in chains in December 1940 by the British
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After a brief revival, the cap that once adorned nearly every leader’s head is almost extinct
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Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Legacy
Britain did not take easily to its diminished status after 1947. Britons loved the men that India had made of them. India held mythic status in the minds of upper-class Brits. Nothing quite like that has appeared to take India’s place
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Politics
The lesson from Trump’s tariff wars is that while multipolarity may not be dead yet, it is time for India to pursue the more ambitious goal of becoming a pole on its own strength
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Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Identity
From the massacres in Noakhali in 1946 to the ongoing revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, the Hindu part of the Indian identity has been seen as a threat. But it is no longer taboo to say there should be an element of faith in Indianness
Cover Story | The Freedom 2025: Memory
With over 12,000 oral histories, the 1947 partition archive is using storytelling to mend the scars of one of the most traumatic episodes that the subcontinent experienced
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Portrait
A freedom fighter and poet with a grand vision for India, Hasrat Mohani—a communist, a devout Muslim who admired Tilak and worshipped Krishna, and the coiner of the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’—had called for ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule as early as 1921, a demand then rejected by Gandhi but endorsed many years later
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Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Politics
Pakistan was created by a tortured argument which diminished a universal faith, Islam, into parochial nationalism. Within a decade, Pakistan had degenerated into a 'jelly state'
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Patriotism
National anthems, like national flags and independence days, are shortcuts to patriotism. Their elevation to iconic status makes them supersede their immediate contexts by becoming timeless emblems of peoples nations
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Neighbourhood
It is time we in India recognised that 50 years after his death, the killers of Mujibur Rahman have launched a civilisational war on India. As in 1971, it is India. As in 1971, it is a battle against those who won’t stop unless they have undermined India's political and cultural foundations
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Legacy
Sree Narayana Guru’s genius lay in offering a synergistic model for holistic human liberation. The three pillars of castelessness, education, and enterprise formed an unbreakable chain of progress
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Nation
As India rises in the new world with self-confidence, it should not be dominated by the old Western institutions. India should assuage today's global anxiety by promoting its distinct ideas
Columns | Web Exclusive: Guest Column
When the leaders of Russia and America met on US soil, the world watched. Russians and Ukrainians hoped for signs of a peace process, yet woke up to find the West demanding more war
News Briefs | Web Exclusive: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH WWW.SHORTPOST.IN
The Indian Parliament cleared two new laws to henceforth govern domestic, international sporting encounters
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