Democracy demands that a leader listens, learns, takes questions, and answers them. When the people are polarised, they too must take to listening to one another, to members of another community or another persuasion, so that knowledge is gained and opinion is corrected.

"India needs to recall its first prime minister for his love and passion for personal liberty," says Rajmohan Gandhi in the Indian Express.

"This is a time of surgical strikes, hysteria, hostility to dissent. Why frankness, debate, questioning must follow."

Provided it remains honest and mutually respectful, interaction between common people across the divide can only help, writes Rajmohan Gandhi in The Economic Times.

The impression that persons in authority in India regard Muslims as less than equal, and not entitled to personal liberty, is now a major obstacle on the country’s path to global influence, writes Rajmohan Gandhi in The Tribune.

"Drop the stone…," writes Rajmohan Gandhi in The Indian Express, "because, to embarrass the rest of us into caring, Kashmiris must use fresh methods, free of radical Islam, free of violence."

In this thought-provoking book, award-winning biographer and historian Rajmohan Gandhi sets the record straight on the founding fathers as well as their great opponent, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Along the way, he answers questions of perennial interest—Who was really responsible for Partition? Were Gandhi and Ambedkar enemies? Did the Mahatma weaken the country’s Hindus? Was he anti-Muslim? Should India have been a Hindu Rashtra? Could the Kashmir issue have been dealt with differently? Would Bose and Patel have led the independent nation better than Gandhi and Nehru?

Rajmohan Gandhi's new book, 'Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic’s Beginnings', is, writes the Times of India, "a thought-provoking work that the author, a grandson of the Mahatma, has penned and despite his relationship, he is quite balanced and freely acknowledges his grandfather's shortcomings and mistakes. And there is something new that most of us will find, though it may not be very salutary, eg. What ex-INA men ended up doing.

Rajmohan Gandhi assesses the recent election in an article in the Economic Times