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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicFreedom At Midnight

Topic: Freedom At Midnight

Going beyond Godse. Freedom at Midnight Season 2 looks at Madanlal Pahwa

Director Nikhil Advani, who first read the book in his teens, was fascinated by how Madanlal Pahwa became the kind of man he did.

Nehru & Jinnah next up on Sony LIV. They are the rocket boys of Independence

Arif Zakaria, who plays Jinnah in Freedom At Midnight, makes it a point to stumble over the Urdu speech scenes. After all, Jinnah was not comfortable with the language.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.