Mayhem in the Metropolis
An elegy to a Mumbai destroyed by greed and cynicism
01 September 2023
Mapping Women’s Anger
The importance of righteous rage, from the ancient epics to the revolutions of today
23 December 2022
Thresholds of Time and Space
A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India
22 April 2022
Draupadi’s Rage
Her story has been repeatedly retold by women writers because the epic heroine challenges patriarchy
03 September 2021
Resistance and Resilience
Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic
20 August 2021
Wisdom of the East
Jairam Ramesh chronicles the life of Edwin Arnold who took Buddha’s ideas to the West via a narrative poem
25 June 2021
Bound by the Need for Breath
The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote
07 May 2021
Forest of Ideas
Keerthik Sasidharan reimagines the Mahabharata to find meaning for the 21st century reader
05 February 2021
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 several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
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
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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