//January

Constitution@75 Ambedkar’s Warnings


The Telegraph

Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is, that Man was vile. B. R. Ambedkar, speaking to the Constituent Assembly of India, November 1948 The Indian Constitution came into force on 26th [...]

Warts and All


The Telegraph

Shortly before he demitted office as Prime Minister in 2014, Manmohan Singh said that history would judge him more generously than the media was then doing. Now, reading the outpouring of adulatory tributes to Singh after his passing, this historian is led to wonder—are these eulogies altogether merited? Was he the wise, all-knowing, and apparently flawless [...]