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Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar, a diplomat turned politician, is a former Union minister and an author of several books

Books
Who Are We?

Tracing the evolution of India’s unique identity

28 April 2023
Churchill’s Endgame in India
Books
Churchill’s Endgame in India

Was he a nasty imperialist or a British patriot?

17 March 2023
Books
The Making of India

Sandeep Bamzai provides a balanced perspective of Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in envisaging a united and unified India

14 February 2022
Books
The Critical Insider

Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto

30 January 2022
Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness
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Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

06 August 2021
Questions of Identity
Books
Questions of Identity

What does Islam mean to Indians, Muslim and non-Muslim

21 May 2021
Books
A Vice-President’s Reflections

An account of a proud Indian Muslim who occupied the highest offices

24 February 2021
Who Is an Indian?
Essay
Who Is an Indian?

Being and belonging according to Shashi Tharoor

08 January 2021
Akbar’s Idea of India
Books
Akbar’s Idea of India

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

03 April 2020
Points of Inflection
Books
Points of Inflection

A magisterial survey of India’s volatile growth story

17 January 2020

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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