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Ashwin Mahesh
takes a closer look at the generation that has guided India through these last 50 years.
Arun Shourie
asks if B R Ambedkar deserves to be honoured the way he is in India today. A controversial reassessment of the dalit leader.
Professor Mushirul Hasan
examines the state of Indian Muslims half-a-century after Partition.
K R Sundar Rajan
remembers the horrors of the Emergency.
Bipin Chandra
assesses the triumphs and failures of the last 50 years.

Rajni Kothari
points towards a new democratic alignment.

Jay Dubashi
on why India must find Indian solutions to Indian problems.

Rajeev Srinivasan
on how across a chasm of seventy five years, the eyes of dead men speak to today's Indian American.

Rafiq Zakaria
refutes the common belief that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was anti-Muslim.

Mani Shankar Aiyar
asks 'Fifty years of freedom: What is there to celebrate?'
Ashwin Mahesh
reflects on the brother he lost 50 years ago.
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