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Aatish Taseer
My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Aatish Taseer, Author
Thomas Chatterton Williams | Arthur Koestler
21 December 2019
“That the world that you knew, and that in a way made you— that world vanishes. I don’t think I’m alone in that,” says Salman Rushdie
Open Conversation with Salman Rushdie, author
02 August 2019
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
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
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
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
Mogambo in the Sacred City
The wait is over. The Congress Party has found a man to fight Modi from Benares.
18 April 2014
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
Authors
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
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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