alliance Company, one of the oldest bookstores in Tamil Nadu, provides a link between a Tamil book printed in Madras and the soldiers of Subash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army in Southeast Asia
Ally of the freedom movement
Pages from history – A reading list
The present is closely linked to the past. We bring you a list of books to know your country better this Independence Day. Some of these are vividly documented retellings of the past and some are fictional narratives set in the freedom movement
Songs of freedom
They rang out of schools, colleges, prayer halls and meeting grounds. Songs invoking the idea of nationalism became a rallying point for the freedom and birth of a new nation
Lata Mangeshkar: A song for every occasion
Lata Mangeshkar, the nightingale of Bollywood turns 80. But age has not dimmed the force of that voice that still strikes a chord with the millions whose lives seem incomplete without it
Madraswallah 