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20 November 2014On the absurdity of Shweta Basu spending two months in a rehabilitation home
06 November 2014The Catholic Church evolves as the Pope acknowledges Evolution
30 October 2014On the Catholic Church’s recent reluctance to ‘welcome’ homosexuality
22 October 2014How spirituality and poetry mix in the peripatetic world of Arundhathi Subramaniam
21 October 2014Mumbai has its commercial roots in drug money. A profile of the City
16 October 2014Marrying at 25 = less child malnutrition = long life
16 October 2014Take reports of suicides following Jayalalithaa’s conviction with a pinch of salt
01 October 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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