Several communist leaders ignore the swayamsevaks who died defending India’s unity, saving lives and resisting terror, while selectively invoking martyrs to suit their ideology   It was amusing to read comrade Brinda Karat’s rant against Prime Minister Modi and to hear comrade Pinarayi Vijayan “denounce” him for flagging and lauding, …

In a bold editorial tribute to Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, in July 1953, shortly after his death in detention in Kashmir, the iconic journal Modern Review best described Syama Prasad and best evoked the collective of sense of loss felt by a shocked nation. The people of Syama Prasad’s own state, the …

In the twilight of his life, Doctorji stood at the cusp of a transformative alliance – had fate allowed his meeting with Subhas Bose, India’s freedom struggle would have been more revolutionary The study of the many “ifs” of history is always a fascinating journey into the twist and turns of …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to the debate on the Constitution will go down in the annals of India’s parliamentary history as a historic and unprecedented address. It articulated the challenges that the Constitution faced for over five decades, and it spoke of those towering framers of the Constitution who …

“Liberty is not a single and simple conception. It has four elements- national, political, personal, economic. The man who is fully free is one who lives in a country which is independent, in a State which is democratic, in a society where the laws are equal and restrictions at a …