Writing in the Dark
Raj Kamal Jha’s fiction transforms the news from something that fades into the past into a hologram of the present
25 January 2024
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
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
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
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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