Read these books to know more about Indian independence movement because independence was not only about celebration but it included violence, abuse, dislocation and bloodshed.

Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. An exhilarating drama which includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, imperial ‘Die Hards’ and Indian nationalists, political chancers and police informers. An excerpt: Hatibagan, 139 Cornwallis Street, Calcutta, 12 May 1939 Near about […]

The house of Sister Nivedita, Swami Vivekananda’s disciple, will be restored ahead of her birth anniversary on October 28. The redesign of her 120-year-old house in north Kolkata will be unveiled on that date. The ASI had taken up the project of the Grade One Heritage structure in 2013. The government had bought the house […]