Ramachandra Guha: 50 books that tell the story of 75 years of Indian independence

From Granville Austin’s ‘The Indian Constitution’ to Malika Amar Shaikh’s ‘I Want to Destroy Myself’, a list of essential reading.

Ramachandra Guha

· Sep 11, 2022 · 08:30 am

KR Meera: Free, secular, diverse and happy, ‘I can’t imagine India in any other way’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

KR Meera

· Aug 15, 2022 · 06:30 pm

Keshava Guha: Ours is a country made by writers – we have never needed them more

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Keshava Guha

· Aug 15, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Jerry Pinto: ‘You don’t get India unless you have Amar, Akbar and Anthony’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Jerry Pinto

· Aug 15, 2022 · 03:30 pm

Romila Thapar: ‘The rights of citizenship have faded’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Romila Thapar

· Aug 15, 2022 · 01:00 pm

Arshia Sattar: ‘We must bring ourselves back to beauty, compassion and solidarity...’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Arshia Sattar

· Aug 15, 2022 · 12:00 pm

Suketu Mehta: ‘As goes India, so goes democracy’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Suketu Mehta

· Aug 15, 2022 · 11:00 am

Sujatha Gidla: ‘Indians still await that elusive freedom’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Sujatha Gidla

· Aug 15, 2022 · 10:00 am

Nayantara Sahgal: ‘Can the spirit of 1947, with its individual rights and freedoms, be recaptured?’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Nayantara Sahgal

· Aug 15, 2022 · 08:30 am

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: ‘This is not India at 75, as much as a time for refounding’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

· Aug 15, 2022 · 08:00 am

Salman Rushdie: ‘A shadow lies upon the country we loved so deeply’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Salman Rushdie

· Aug 15, 2022 · 07:30 am