Ira Mukhoty is the author of three books on narrative history and one novel
Queens of resistance
The rootlessness of family can give you the world
The sartorial expressions of the Queen’s soft power
The many incarnations of Tipu Sultan
The perils of a binary reading of sources at odds with a complicated reality
The Indus Civilisation can teach us much about equality and harmony, aesthetics and planning
There is no single, pure Indian way of cooking and eating
The French connection behind the painting that shows Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan defeating Company forces at the Battle of Pollilur
The complex evolution of cultures and societies in the Deccan
The fantastical journey of the horse
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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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