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Jawaharlal Nehru with Zhou Enlai in Beijing on October 19, 1954.

A failure ordained

In 1960, India lost a chance to settle the border disagreement with China. China’s position has since hardened, and the concessions that Zhou Enlai wa

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Gujarat’s internal refugees

The book revisits the Gujarat pogrom on Narendra Modi’s watch and warns of a past that lies behind the success he has achieved.

How to settle the Kashmir issue

In 2007, Pervez Musharraf and Manmohan Singh brought the Kashmir dispute to the very threshold of a settlement. A draft agreement still exists, awaiti

A false dawn

The dynamics of diplomacy as demonstrated in the Camp David Accords and the lessons that the peace process associated with them hold for all strife-to

RSS Chief Balasaheb Deoras

Servile Sangh

Letters written by RSS leaders to the Prime Minister seeking release from jail during the Emergency reveal the opportunistic side of the Sangh, ready

India’s failure in Kashmir

The book reveals all too clearly how in Jammu and Kashmir the intelligence agencies subverted the democratic process with intrigue and the electoral p

Media’s problems

The book turns the searchlight on a wide spectrum of issues concerning the media.

Ind-China Relations: June 1954: Prime Ministers Zhou Enlai and Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi.

Nehru’s contradictions

The four volumes on Nehru that no student of India’s history can do without throw light on different facets of his personality, including his intolera

Godmen and libel

In 1862, the head of a religious sect filed a defamation case against a newspaper for exposing his sexual exploitation of female devotees. In a remark

HYDERABAD, 28/02/2009: Dr. BR Ambedkar's rare picture from the book 'Dr BR Ambedkar', in Hyderabad.
Photo: P.V. Sivakumar 28-02-2009

Squandered heritage

For 65 years, media and academia have failed to do justice to the towering intellect that Ambedkar was. Successive governments have undermined the Con

For Frontline : PUDUCHERRY, 23/04/2015: (Attention to R.Vijayasankar sir) Photos from the Dr.Babasaheb.Ambedkar Photo Biography book. Photo: T.Singaravelou

Ambedkar, Gandhi & Jinnah

The inner history of the negotiations to give recognition to the untouchables as a separate political entity.

Mahatma Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel

Integrity & intelligence

No intelligence service can perform well if its political masters lack the integrity which alone can inspire it to act straight.