Manu S Pillai
Manu S Pillai is a historian and essayist. His most recent book is The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
The Sword of Shivaji
Bringing the legend of the warrior king to a new generation
09 September 2022
The Quiet Patriotism of Ravi Varma
Funded by maharajahs, admired by moderates while also welcoming the extremist vision, in his domain, the artist manifested a nationalism of his own
01 October 2021
The Colony Writes Back
A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists
31 January 2020
All About the Matriarch
A tale of divorce and diverse husbands in 19th century Kerala
27 December 2019
East India Company: The Evil Empire
The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company
23 August 2019
Sultans and Rajas
The Hindu-Muslim rivalries for power in the Deccan were not examples of communal acrimony
20 June 2018
The Original Mrs G
A portrait of Indira Gandhi as a strong leader and formidable woman
12 July 2017
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
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