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Madhavankutty Pillai

Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

Columns
Juvenile Fundamentalism

What the ongoing vandalism of great artworks says about the activist mindset

28 October 2022
Feature
Ram Setu: The Shallow Sea Bridge

The underwater land strip between India and Sri Lanka shuffles between myth, history, commerce and, now, Bollywood

28 October 2022
Cover Stories
Waiting for Lakshmi

The goddess of wealth is still evolving

21 October 2022
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Columns
Instrument of Negotiation

A high court order yet again points at the issues in India’s dowry law

14 October 2022
Feature
Ben Bernanke: The Experimenter

The new Nobel laureate in economics kept the system afloat when investment banks collapsed in 2008

14 October 2022
Columns
The Creative Precipice

Age reduces it but there is a twist in the tale

07 October 2022
Terminal Questions
Feature
Terminal Questions

More men than women, more illiterates than graduates, more daily labourers than farmers, nylon ropes—suicides have unusual characteristics in India

30 September 2022
Columns
Cheating and Consequences

As seen in the controversy roiling the chess world

30 September 2022
Feature
Raju Srivastava (1963-2022): The Everyman Comic

He had a large following across the working and rural classes

23 September 2022
Columns
Who Will Call the End?

On the resistance to the US president saying the pandemic is over

23 September 2022

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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