Karnad’s outrage over an award to Naipaul seeks to impose irrelevant standards on a writer
07 November 2012It is reshuffle for one and Ram for the other, but the Congress and BJP are both at odds with the public mood
31 October 2012Finance minister P Chidambaram has inherited a Customs and Excise mess, courtesy controversial CBEC officials
30 September 2012The reform announcements that have given Manmohan Singh and the Congress another lifeline are driven primarily by cold electoral logic
27 September 2012As two recent books tell us, India’s most charismatic leader, Indira Gandhi, has left a debilitating effect on the party. Rahul’s efforts to shelve personality-driven politics only bewilders it
21 September 2012Since when did we in India care about journalistic ethics?
14 September 2012A former intelligence officer writes a gripping and thinly disguised fictional account of the case of Rabinder Singh, an Indian spy who went rogue and escaped to the US
31 August 2012The verdict against Mayaben Kodnani shows that Modi rewarded her for murder
30 August 2012Could the river system that sustained the Harappans be the same as this most sacred Rg Vedic river? Some new geological findings
23 August 2012Brahma 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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