This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
Pulapre Balakrishnan’s ‘India’s Economy from Nehru to Modi’ offers a valuable account of India’s economic history but neglects the social and political elements inseparable from it
Abhishek Choudhary’s new biography of Atal Behari Vajpayee examines the life and legacy of India’s first BJP prime minister, puncturing misguided liberal nostalgia and the hero-worship of the Hindu Right
In 'Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths', Taylor Sherman looks to debunk Jawaharlal Nehru’s positive legacy, failing to see how his vision still saves the country from the worst of itself
'Spirits and demons are only projections of man's own emotional impulses.'
– Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud (1913)
Failure in Love, Evil-Eye of the Enemy, Lack of
The romantics
Who believed
The sun can sulk
The moon can hide
– Shillong-based poet Temsula Ao in "Stone-people from Lungterok"
When the funeral cortège of Girija Prasad Koirala
When the exhausted world is fast asleep
Then at the new-dusk of the New Year
We too shall celebrate
Our New Year
– Anant Bhatnagar in
"Hum bhi manayenge naya
The late Jyotindra Nath ('J N') Dixit belonged to the old guard of South Block bureaucrats who could chide their political masters without appearing to be discourteous. He
