Jawaharlal Nehru

The politics of democratic planning in postcolonial India

In Nikhil Menon’s ‘Planning Democracy’, the vision of economic planning shows the strain between technocracy and representative democracy in India

| Apr 25, 2023

The myth of Congress socialism

Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.

| Mar 30, 2021

Dispelling dangerous notions

Perhaps for the first time, a book in Hindi seeks to present the Kashmir question as a Kashmiri would have presented it.

| Sep 01, 2006

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