Jug Suraiya is a columnist with The Times of India
Remember? How we scratched our names on Taj? Or was it Ajanta?
03 May 2018The final volume of the trilogy on Cicero’s life is a visceral portrayal of the long-lost Roman Empire
03 February 2016Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup
16 September 2015A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes
11 September 2014What the death of Archibald Andrews says about the imperative of tolerance
30 July 2014The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language
07 May 2014How the politically incorrect ethnic joke keeps us together in the great fraternity of laughter
04 April 2014Brahma 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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