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
Sarath Pillai | Apr 25, 2023
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
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.
Iftikhar Gilani | Sep 01, 2006
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