S Irfan Habib

Habib is a historian and author of ‘To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and his Comrades’

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Dilip Kumar was committed to a Nehruvian ethos of socialism and represented the voice of the people in the roles that he essayed.

The Jinnah Question

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Ishtiaq Ahmed’s new book on Jinnah is an opportunity for both India and Pakistan to understand their past in order to make sense of their present.

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A new book, India’s Revolutionary Inheritance, profiles the freedom fighter’s surprisingly mature intellectual legacy.

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