The role of Partition in making Delhi what it is today; where has India’s environmental journey as an independent nation brought us; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [‘If Oxygen Was the Problem, Others Would Have Suffered as Well,’ Says Uttar Pradesh Health Minister]( Anoo Bhuyan [Its been five days since news of the Gorakhpur tragedy broke, in which 23 children died in a single day in Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College. This was a spike from the number of deaths the hospital usually sees. Siddharth Nath Singh, Uttar Pradesh minister for health and state government’s spokesperson, spoke to The Wire on what the cause of deaths were, what responsibility the state government could take, what his government has been working on and whether he considered resigning like his grand father Lal Bahadur Shastri.]( [Amidst the Euphoria of Independence, Is the Nation Ready to Converse With Sri Aurobindo?]( Avijit Pathak [The ‘spiritual age’ Sri Aurobindo visualised is strikingly different from what present-day proponents of religious fundamentalism talk about with their politics of culture and religion and the stigmatisation of the ‘other’.]( [The Role of Partition in Making Delhi What It Is Today]( Sohail Hashmi [The breakneck speed at which Delhi is growing was triggered by the arrival of refugees from Punjab, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province.]( [Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy’s United Bengal Plan That Could Have Changed the Course of India’s History]( Dharitri Bhattacharjee [Suhrawardy, a largely forgotten figure today, was Bengal’s chief minister in 1946 and is often mis-remembered as a Hindu-hating communal leader.]( [Seventy Years After Independence, Remembering the Titans Who Got Us There]( Sucheta Mahajan [Today there is an attempt at portraying the Congress party – and its leaders during independence and Partition – in very different hues from the inclusiveness, tolerance, democracy and secularism it upheld in very trying times.]( [Where Has India’s Environmental Journey as an Independent Nation Brought Us?]( Neha Sinha [Will nature be crushed underfoot by the ease of doing business? Or will ecological wisdom thrive? It truly is time for India to decide.]( [The ‘Hindu’ in Hindustan, and the Troubles of History Repeating Itself]( Paroma Ghose [Despite economic troubles, a questionable education system and a booming healthcare sector catering fabulously to its minuscule elite, it is religion that is on the tip of every politician’s tongue.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](