When the Congress party launched the Quit India movement, the Hindu Mahasabha was busy collaborating with the British and running coalition governments with the Muslim League in Bengal, Sind and the NWFP.

The well-known human rights activist and former physics professor will be remembered for his many acts of courage.

President Prasad acknowledged that he was ‘acting unconstitutionally’ since this was his ‘own initiative […] without any recommendation or advice from [the] Prime Minister'

It’s the city where the much-touted Gujarat Model crystallised, merging masculinist Hindu (sub)nationalism with elite-friendly developmentalism.


When the Congress party launched the Quit India movement, the Hindu Mahasabha was busy collaborating with the British and running coalition governments with the Muslim League in Bengal, Sind and the NWFP.

Although the ruling BJP has decided to focus on the national security question in this parliamentary election, the local issue of inadequate drinking and irrigation water weighed heavily as Gujarat went to vote.

If a place named Karnavati existed near Ahmedabad at all, it was at best a small township outside the walled city.

A look at contemporary Ahmedabad's cultural fabric, its violence, its poets, its food culture, its queer movement and the usage of religiosity by women to resist marginalisation.

Present-day Ahmedabad is a hyper-capitalist city, with more than six million residents, ever expanding in geography and wealth yet deliberately designed on religious divisions thanks to the Hindutva movement.

What values does Ahmedabad represent in contemporary times? This is among the questions Saroop Dhruv’s Gujarati language 'Shahernama' covers by treading the path of the city’s heritage.