The Ayodhya Verdict of 2019: How the Supreme Court Settled the Title
Unanimous, unsigned, a thousand pages: the possession reasoning, the ASI's careful weight, the desecration and egregious violation findings, and the peace that held.
Read MoreLahore 1940: The Resolution That Named a Country
No map, no mechanism, states in the plural, and a word the text never used: the resolution at Minto Park turned a minority's safeguards into a nation's demand.
Read MoreAfter the Demolition: President’s Rule and the Riots That Followed
Four governments dismissed, Bommai's doctrine, the two thousand dead of the winter, the blasts of March, and the acquisition that froze the ground for a generation.
Read MoreSeptember 1939: One Man’s Declaration and the Ministries’ Exit
Three hundred million taken to war by one signature, eight ministries gone by November, and Deliverance Day celebrated: the fork where 1942 and Pakistan both opened.
Read MoreDecember 6, 1992: The Day the Babri Masjid Fell
The assurances, the afternoon, the assault on the cameras, and the three findings that do not reconcile: Liberhan's planners, the court's egregious violation, the acquittals.
Read MoreThe Forward Bloc and the Great Escape
A party of the impatient left, a fast that opened a prison, and a night drive from Elgin Road to legend: the twenty months that made Netaji.
Read MoreOctober 30, 1990: The Kar Sevak Firing and Mulayam’s Choice
The bird that would not cross, the lane from Hanuman Garhi, the two counts of the dead, and the chief minister who became shield and villain in one autumn.
Read MoreTripuri 1939: The Crisis of the Two Captains
An election won against the Mahatma's wishes, a resolution that undid it, and a resignation into rebellion: Tripuri settled where the movement's sovereignty lay.
Read MoreThe Shilanyas of 1989: When the Temple Question Entered the Ballot
Buta Singh's permissions, the Ram Rajya launch from Faizabad, the Dalit hand on the first brick, and the count that enrolled the demand's true owner.
Read MoreSubhas Bose: The Rise of the Rebel President
The ICS resigned at twenty four, Mandalay endured, Europe studied, Haripura crowned: the making of the rebel president the collision at Tripuri awaited.
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