Newsletters  |  Buy Print
Sections
Features
Essentials
Print Edition
Current IssuePast Issues

More stories by this author

Asaf Ali at the Palam airport, just before leaving for the US as India’s first Ambassador to the country on February 7, 1947. He is holding Sceptred Flute, a volume of lyrics presented to him by Sarojini Naidu.

The life and times of Asaf Ali

In ‘Circles of Freedom’, T.C.A. Raghavan profiles the forgotten freedom fighter and his friends, set against the independence movement and Partition.
Parvati Sharma
Japanese fighter planes on a sortie. (A photograph from the Military Heritage exhibition at the Madras Literary Society in August 2019 in Chennai.)

The war that never was

Nimbly, and often wittily, Mukund Padmanabhan’s The Great Flap of 1942 recounts the mad exodus from Madras during the Second World War.
Parvati Sharma
Sign in to Unlock member-only benefits!
  • Bookmark stories to read later.
  • Comment on stories to start conversations.
  • Subscribe to our newsletters.
  • Get notified about discounts and offers to our products.
Sign in