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
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
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 | 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: Accessory
After a brief revival, the cap that once adorned nearly every leader’s head is almost extinct
Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2025: Politics
It takes a village
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: Personal History
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
Columns
Janhvi Kapoor: South Story Kaveree Bamzai
Beware Secular Poseurs Minhaz Merchant
Salvaging a Friendship Makarand R Paranjape
Taste of Freedom Suvir Saran
The Return of Anti-Americanism S Prasannarajan