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The myth of Congress socialism
Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.
Pratinav Anil | Mar 30, 2021
The ‘good-governance’ problem
How India’s top bureaucrats saw the end of the Emergency, and why it’s relevant today.
Abhinav Sekhri | Jan 13, 2021
Girls in the war
A visit to the hill districts of Dailekh, Kalikot and Jumla in west Nepal in February 2003, three weeks after the declaration of the ceasefire between government and Maoist forces, reveals that the much-touted female …
Manjushree Thapa | Jun 01, 2003
India was Indira, Indira was India
Mrs. Gandhi was not the matriarch unwillingly pushed to drastic action. She was inclined dictatorial, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Ramachandra Guha | Jul 01, 2000
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