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

A magisterial survey of India’s volatile growth story

AK Bhattacharya | Bhaichand Patel | Krishna Sarma, Savitha Suri and Shaheen Desai

What’s it like being a Muslim in today’s India? Salman Khurshid takes a personal journey with a political message

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy

Basking in the hospitality of Pakistan, remembering the thrill of the liberation of Bangladesh, and trying to be a good guest of Sri Lanka

For all its contemporary woes and tortured history recounted in MJ Akbar’s new book, Pakistan is not about to fall apart

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…