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Sardar Patel’s legacy gets lost in Modi’s spectacle. PM makes it all about himself

Modi’s tendency to overwrite even Sardar’s name when it suits his image-building was evident in 2021, when the Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera was...

Urvish Kothari

Sardar Patel had many critics, but many of those detractors eventually came to appreciate his qualities, shedding their previous reservations.

‘The one thing that makes me sad is that all the officers here are Indians… Had they been British, I would have taught them a lesson.’

Leaders at the time didn’t consider the election significant enough to be documented in detail, which ended up leaving room for propaganda. But...

The official website of the Olympics confirms that no Indian cyclist competed in the cycling events in Berlin in 1936, while no Olympic games were...

Many used the occasion to praise Britain, overlooking the financial exploitation of India’s resources and the role it played in exacerbating the...