We all go on trips with friends. Those car rides. Those stops on the roadside to sip a cup of chai. That loud music and too much noise huddling between soothing classical tunes and the ...

The birth of a new nation-state at the end of British colonial rule enabled sovereignty to be restored to the people for the first time in its history. People, who were, until then, mere subjects, ...

When a journalist once asked Jawaharlal Nehru how he would stop the ‘contagion’ of military coups across India’s neighbourhood (read: India’s near east), Nehru remarked that the ‘contagion [of ...