The Road To Freedom

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

‘Revolutionaries were really visible in their banter and ruminations,’ writes Aparna Vaidik, author of ‘Waiting for Swaraj’.

Aparna Vaidik
· Nov 20, 2021 · 08:30 am
Video: On this day 88 years ago, Gandhi began the Dandi March to protest the British salt tax

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi marched 394 km from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Dandi to protest against the imposition of a salt tax by the British.

Scroll Staff
· Mar 12, 2018 · 07:00 am
The declassified files on Subhash Chandra Bose are tame, watch the documentary instead

Even the most diehard believer in the 'Netaji did not die' theory can't be expecting him to be alive on his 119th birth anniversary.

Scroll Staff
· Jan 23, 2016 · 05:00 pm

WH Auden's unsparing poem on the partition of India

Auden's 1966 poem 'Partition' is a caustic criticism of the five weeks Cyril Radcliffe spent in the subcontinent drawing up the borders between India and Pakistan

Scroll Staff
· Aug 15, 2014 · 09:17 am