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Aatish Taseer

My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Aatish Taseer, Author
Books
My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Aatish Taseer, Author

Thomas Chatterton Williams | Arthur Koestler

21 December 2019
The Conqueror of Destiny
Essay
The Conqueror of Destiny

A search in Benares for Brahmins, the twice-born, leads to an encounter with a young member of the aristocracy of the mind

25 October 2018
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Voices
The Light of Benares

Modi, if he is to bring profound change, must not go the Erdogan or Rajapaksa route. Because the conditions for the emergence of that kind of leader do exist in India

08 May 2014
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Voices
The runaway messiah

Arvind Kejriwal is the most dangerous of all political animals: the messiah. The man for whom any existing reality is too impure to be corrected

01 May 2014
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Voices
The Comfort of Masks

The masks are a celebration of sameness from which many people feel shut out. They convey both the euphoria of this election and its air of mutual distrust

24 April 2014
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Voices
Mogambo in the Sacred City

The wait is over. The Congress Party has found a man to fight Modi from Benares.

18 April 2014
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Voices
There’s No Silence Louder than Rahul in Benares

The enigma that is Rahul Gandhi has proved too inscrutable for the people of Benares. No one has a word to say about him, not even a harsh word

11 April 2014
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Art & Culture
A Historical Sense

What Sanskrit has meant to me

08 August 2013

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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