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THE INTERVIEWS REFLECTIONS IMPRESSIONS 50 INDIANS MEMORIES
		''Netaji asked me to give the song a martial tune that would not put people to sleep, but awaken those who were sleeping' Captain Ram Singh, who composed the music for India's national anthem and Kadam kadam badhahye ja, khushi ke geet gaye ja, has been forgotten by India.
	'Our founding fathers gave us passports to their ideals. Let us live up to them in the next fifty' Shashi Tharoor, author and diplomat, tells Rajeev Srinivasan.	'I feel isolated in this country' A fascinating account of life in contemporary India.
	Iqbal and the birth of Pakistan Did the great poet spawn the idea of Pakistan? Iqbal Singh finds out.	The Abuse of History Rajeev Srinivasan on the persistence of time.
	Memories of Midnight Phillips Talbot relives India's tryst with destiny.
	Worshipping a False God Arun Shourie reassesses Ambedkar's legacy.
	'When Nehru himself cried while speaking, what about an ordinary news reader like me?' Poornam Viswanathan was the first to broadcast the news of India's freedom
	'Years of meandering gave us a land without direction, a people without purpose' Ashwin Mahesh takes a closer look at the generation that has guided India through these last 50 years.
	'After 50 years, what democracy is this?' A moving encounter with Baba Amte, living legend.
	The glories of Amritsar in an undivided Punjab The rich and the famous of those days preferred to settle down in Lahore, but Amritsar had its attractions for the business community.
	The legend of Jhalkari Bai A little known chapter on a woman's courage in colonial India.
	Mission with the Mahatma Phillips Talbot's vivid account of Gandhi's march for peace in Noakhali.
	The Chapati scare As harmless as it might look, the freckled brown, round chapati caused fear and loathing among British officers in 1857.
	'Spring cannot be far behind' Freedom fighter C S Chellappa is old, hungry and poor, but he has not yet lost his faith in India and its people.
	The Nowhere People Independence is, for a few hundred Pakistan citizens who emigrated to the erstwhile Malabar province in Kerala, a funny word.
	'One of India's great strengths is her ability to contain violence' Ainslee T Embree glances at 50 years of freedom
	The Brave Women of Meerut In the town deeply associated with the 1857 mutiny, the fire burnt brightly.
	'The middle class feels fundamentalism is the only way' Controversial novelist Paul Zacharia, in an explosive interview.
	The Indian informer in the British police K V Upadhye could not keep away from the revolutionary zeal of the age.
	The Sardar was the real architect of the Constitution The Iron Man dominated the Constituent Assembly so that the Constitution could be aptly called the Patel Constitution.
	'What we are seeing today is not the country of our dreams, it is some injustice of God' INA soldiers believe India would have been different had Netaji lived.
	When India nearly lost Assam to Pakistan Opposition from the Congress leadership in the state with Mahatma Gandhi's support saved Assam from Jinnah's designs.
	`I expect Kashmir to be partitioned, some day' Alan Campbell-Johnson on Partition and thereafter.
	The myth of Muslim appeasement Mushirul Hasan dispels the impression that Muslims are a pampered lot.
	The Best Years of Our Lives Bipin Chandra looks back at 50 years of India's achievements...
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