India@75 Har Ghar Tiranga: When civic symbolism becomes more critical than civic actionGautam BhatiaSo great is the mistrust that enforcing a picture-book nationalism becomes a necessity.
India@75 1984: First TV soap ‘Hum Log’ airedTEAM FRONTLINEThe serial dealt deftly with issues that were prevalent at the time.
India@75 1984: Hanging of Maqbool BhatAnando BhaktoBhat’s body was not returned to his family, which sparked widespread fury in Kashmir.
India@75 1982: Festival of IndiaTEAM FRONTLINEThe festivals were the first attempts to present India through Indian eyes.
India@75 India at 75: Epochal moments from the 1980sTEAM FRONTLINESporting glory and the start of mandir-masjid politics.
India@75 PHOTO ESSAY | Captured in timeTEAM FRONTLINEAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
India@75 1989: Binaca GeetmalaTEAM FRONTLINEThe story of its success is that of the triumphant march of Hindi film music.
India@75 1987: Airing of ‘Ramayan’TEAM FRONTLINEIt laid the foundation for Hindu nationalism and reshaped the public sphere irrevocably.
India@75 1986: Babri Masjid unlockedTEAM FRONTLINEIt generated a political energy that culminated in the mosque’s ultimate destruction.
India@75 Har Ghar Tiranga: When civic symbolism becomes more critical than civic actionGautam BhatiaSo great is the mistrust that enforcing a picture-book nationalism becomes a necessity.
Savarkar’s mercy petitionA.G. NOORANITHOUGH every record leap to light, he never shall be shamed, goes an old saying. In V.D. Savarkar’s case, every record disclosed exposes his deceit, v
India@75 - Iconic Moments 1951-52: First ever general electionTEAM FRONTLINEConducted over a period of four months, a total of 17.3 crore voters were registered.
India@75 1974: Operation Smiling BuddhaTEAM FRONTLINEThe Indian bomb went off exactly a decade after China exploded its device.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.