Roger Sherman, a founding father of the American Constitution, had observed that ‘if the vice...

India might have awakened to ‘life and freedom’ at the stroke of the midnight hour separating 14...

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

Dilli jo ek shahr tha, alam mein intikhab, Rehte the muntakhab hi jahan rozgar ke. Usko falak ne...

Mrinal Talukdar’s new book Post-Colonial Assam (1947-2019) covers 72 years of Assam’s political...

This extensively researched book opens a pandora’s box of intrigues and misdeeds of many British...

India’s post-Independence history, which is still not taught in schools and colleges, presents...

Ironically, in a plural, fast modernising and a superficially homogenising society like India, it...

Heavy on flourish, fleet-footed to the point of extreme convolution and desperately crammed with...

Before I start writing this review of When I Was A Boy: Scenes and Stories from My Childhood, I...

The story that emerges from Arvind Lal’s book is undoubtedly fascinating. It begins with a terrible...