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Rethinking History ~ II

The constitutional debates of the 1920s acquired a new urgency after the Communal Award of 1932 and, more decisively, the Government of India Act of 1935.

Narrow Survival

The most revealing moments in politics are rarely the ones that end careers. They are the ones that do not.

Serampore Heritage Utsav, where history and cultures mix

The annual Serampore Heritage Utsav, a festival tomtomming the intriguing cultural mix of the town's rich Danish, British, and Vaishnavite history, was inaugurated last Monday and has already proved a draw with its heritage walks, river cruise, old temples, and even a palace.

Taxing Balance

Rachel Reeves’s latest Budget attempts something British chancellors before her rarely managed with conviction: mixing fiscal restraint with visible social compassion.

Gandhi’s path

Through the last two weeks of March and April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi continued his march on foot, along with 78 Congress volunteers from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to the Gujarat coast; what the world knows as the Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, a historic event.