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The Army Factor
Everyone knows about Jinnah, but do you know how the army contibuted to the birth of Pakistan?
The legend of Jhalkari Bai
A little known chapter on a woman's courage in colonial India.
The glories of Amritsar in an undivided Punjab
The rich and the famous of those days preferred to settle down in Lahore, but Amritsar had its attractions for the the business community.
The Nowhere People
Independence is, for a few hundred Pakistan citizens who emigrated to the erstwhile Malabar province in Kerala, a funny word.
'Spring cannot be far behind'
Freedom fighter C S Chellappa is old, hungry and poor, but he has not yet lost his faith in India and its people.
The Chapati scare
As harmless as it might look, the freckled brown, round chapati caused fear and loathing among British officers in 1857.
Sardar Patel was the real architect of the Constitution
The Iron Man so dominated the Constituent Assembly that the Constitution could be aptly called the Patel Constitution.
The Brave Women of Meerut
In the town deeply associated with the 1857 mutiny, the fire burnt brightly.
When India nearly lost Assam to Pakistan
How Assam was saved from Jinnah's designs.
Mission with the Mahatma
Philips Talbot's vivid account of Gandhi's march for amity.
'What we are seeing today is not the country of our dreams, it is some injustice of God'
INA soldiers believe India would have been different had Netaji survived.
'It is in vain to expect justice from a race so blind with power'
Sarojini Naidu's letters to the Mahatma, Nehru, Gokhale...
'Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir, or do you want to give it away?'
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw on the Kashmir Accession.
The Indian informer in the British police
K V Upadhye could not keep away from the revolutionary zeal of the age.
'Going to India meant being involved in the most fascinating event in 20th century history'
Ainslee T Embree reflects on 50 years of the India-US relationship.
Rebel With A Cause
The amazing Mridula Sarabhai, crusader for peace.
Freedom
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