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freedom movement

  • Nehru not being named in president’s Independence Day speech part of campaign to erase him: Congress

    Nehru not being named in president’s Independence Day speech part of campaign to erase him: Congress

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 15, 2024 · 04:13 pm
  • Reading list: Eight novels that celebrate the role of children in the Indian independence movement

    Reading list: Eight novels that celebrate the role of children in the Indian independence movement

    Scroll
    · Aug 15, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • A history on foot: How Mumbai’s cosmopolitan past shaped Indian nationalism

    A history on foot: How Mumbai’s cosmopolitan past shaped Indian nationalism

    Aparna Kapadia
    · Aug 15, 2024 · 07:30 am
  • A new book examines how India’s freedom movement impacted the country’s Constitution

    A new book examines how India’s freedom movement impacted the country’s Constitution

    Sandipto Dasgupta
    · Aug 07, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • For children: How Laxmi Panda became the youngest soldier in the INA’s Rani Laxmi Bai Regiment

    For children: How Laxmi Panda became the youngest soldier in the INA’s Rani Laxmi Bai Regiment

    Savie Kernel
    · Jul 17, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • What led to the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy Case, where Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were on trial?

    What led to the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy Case, where Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were on trial?

    Aparna Vaidik
    · Jul 05, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • This novel recreates the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre through the eyes of nine witnesses

    This novel recreates the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre through the eyes of nine witnesses

    Navtej Sarna
    · Jul 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • Who were Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh in their private lives, asks a new book

    Who were Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh in their private lives, asks a new book

    Aparna Vaidik
    · Nov 20, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • On my freedom fighter father’s birth centenary, what would he have made of the hate in India today?

    On my freedom fighter father’s birth centenary, what would he have made of the hate in India today?

    David Devadas
    · Dec 19, 2019 · 12:28 pm
  • The man who coined the slogan ‘Quit India’: Remembering Yusuf Meherally

    The man who coined the slogan ‘Quit India’: Remembering Yusuf Meherally

    Aarefa Johari
    · Aug 08, 2017 · 07:30 am
  • Meet the man whom Mahatma Gandhi called 'the Father of the Nation'

    Meet the man whom Mahatma Gandhi called 'the Father of the Nation'

    Dinyar Patel
    · Aug 08, 2016 · 08:30 am