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Indira Gandhi
Politics
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Books
How the chimera of Khalistan animates Hindu and Sikh fundamentalism
Politics
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Essay
How the Congress legitimised the Sangh’s communal politics
Crime
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Essay
A reporter’s account of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence
MR Narayan Swamy
Politics
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Essay
Why Stan Swamy may have survived old India
SNM Abdi
Politics
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Commentary
The government is playing the same game that once led Punjab to disaster
Hartosh Singh Bal
Media
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The Lede
A veteran photojournalist reflects on her itinerant career
Saskia Solomon
Law
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Reportage
What the judiciary has done to itself
Atul Dev
Politics
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Excerpt
Emergency and the “gangsterisation of Indian politics” under Indira and Sanjay Gandhi
Kapil Komireddi
Conflict
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Excerpt
How the Congress propped up Bhindranwale
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Essay
How the Jama’at-e-Islami chronicles the failure of mainstream politics in Kashmir
Basharat Ali
Media
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Reportage
History repeating at Shobhana Bhartia’s Hindustan Times
Atul Dev
History
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News
Did Indira Gandhi really want to go to war in April 1971?
Jairam Ramesh
History
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Essay
Indira Gandhi’s decision to hold the Indian Army back from Peshawar in 1971
Ashok Parthasarathi
Politics
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Profile
The hard questions facing the poster boy of Canadian multiculturalism
Daniel Block
Government
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News
How Senior Congress Leaders Sanctioned The Organised Violence Against Sikhs In 1984
Hartosh Singh Bal
Law
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Reportage
Chief Justice Khehar and the tussle between the executive and the judiciary
Atul Dev
Politics
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Reportage
The oversize sway of typists and personal assistants to Indian politicians
Jasy Joseph
History
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Books
Indira Gandhi and the Emergency, 40 years on
Srinath Raghavan
Law
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Books
Is the Supreme Court collegium compromising judicial independence?
Suhrith Parthasarthy
Politics
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Essay
Nayantara Sahgal’s battle with Indira Gandhi
Ritu Menon
Conflict
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Reportage
The story of the Gandhis’ biggest mistake, and how it still haunts Punjab
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Profile
The unfulfilled ambitions of Sharad Pawar
Neerja Chowdhury
Politics
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Commentary
How the Gandhis kept a party but lost the country
Hartosh Singh Bal
Security
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Reportage
Forty-five years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost five kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. It’s still missing—but the government has decided to ignore the ongoing threat.
Vinod K Jose
Communities
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Commentary
Expelling India’s Oldest Diaspora Will Not Solve France’s Immigration Problems
Mira Kamdar
Politics
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Essay
Those I Respect And Admire
Khushwant Singh
Politics
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Commentary
The Prime Minister has had enviable innings, but he seems to have lost his sense of purpose and direction
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Arts
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Essay
Memories of decades worth of summers, winters and monsoons
Nakul Krishna
