The Nagarwala Case: The Sixty Lakh Mystery That Was Never Solved
A phone call in the Prime Minister's voice, sixty lakh rupees handed over in a trunk, a ten day trial, and two convenient deaths. The Nagarwala case remains India's favourite unsolved conspiracy.
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The Joshi Abhyankar Serial Murders That Terrorised Pune
Four art students, ten murders, and a city that stopped sleeping. The Joshi Abhyankar killings of 1976 and 1977 ended with one of the only fourfold hangings in the republic's history.
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Pratap Singh Kairon: The First Assassination of a Former Chief Minister
A former Punjab chief minister forced off the Grand Trunk Road and shot in daylight in 1965. The Kairon assassination brought political violence into the post Nehru era.
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Nanavati vs the State of Maharashtra: The Case That Ended Jury Trials
A naval commander, his wife's confession, three shots in a Bombay flat, and a jury verdict the courts refused to accept. The Nanavati case ended trial by jury in India.
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The Mundhra Scandal: The Scam That Shook Nehru’s Government
LIC's money, a Calcutta speculator, and a question raised by Feroze Gandhi in Parliament. The 1957 Mundhra scandal brought down a finance minister and set the template for every scam inquiry since.
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The Jeep Scandal: Independent India’s First Corruption Controversy
A wartime purchase of jeeps for Kashmir, a contract signed in London, and a file closed in Parliament. The 1948 jeep scandal set the template for how India handles corruption charges.
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The Bhawal Sannyasi Case: The Dead Prince Who Came Back
A prince cremated in Darjeeling in 1909, a sadhu in Dhaka in 1921, and a thirty seven year legal battle that ended at the Privy Council. The strangest identity trial in Indian history.
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The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the Trial at the Red Fort
Three shots at Birla House, a conspiracy traced from Pune to Gwalior, and a trial inside the Red Fort. How independent India prosecuted its first and most consequential murder.
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The Killing Fields of Majha: Tarn Taran and Amritsar in the Late 1980s
The border belt of Amritsar and Tarn Taran was the insurgency's epicentre: the corridor from Pakistan, the recruiting ground, the site of the worst predation from both sides, and the cremation registers that later revealed the disappeared.
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The Bus Massacres: When the Militancy Turned Its Guns on Passengers
From Muktsar 1986 to Fatehabad 1987 to the Baddowal trains of 1991, militants stopped buses and killed passengers selected by religion. The pattern, the strategy behind it, and what the massacres did to the movement's claims.
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