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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

Hayat Tahrir-al Sham leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (centre) arrives at the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, December 8, 2024
Essay
An Islamist In Damascus

Bashar al-Assad’s fall may have made the Middle East more dangerous

13 December 2024
Columns
Wayanad National Congress

If Congress leaders had to resign after defeat, Rahul Gandhi would have gone from his post after a calamitous 2014 and left politics after 2019

29 November 2024
Will Mr & Mrs Moses Wear A Bandana Now?
Columns
Will Mr & Mrs Moses Wear A Bandana Now?

Kamala Harris was the candidate of the capital. She was a protégée of the elitist monarchs King Barack and Queen Michelle Obama, and their smug pseudo-strategists who thought that any nominee could slide past any question on policy with a non-sequitur

08 November 2024
Death, We Know Where Is Thy Sting
Columns
Death, We Know Where Is Thy Sting

Nietzsche went too far. God, being omnipotent, had the last laugh

25 October 2024
Congress is lost between the bizarre and the banal
Columns
Such a Bad Loser

Congress is lost between the bizarre and the banal

11 October 2024
Fearforflying
Columns
Flying in the Age of Insecurity

Are we tempting the lords of nationalisation to dangle another threat?

27 September 2024
Columns
The Cyanide Killers of Tenali

Logic explains the mundane as much as the divine

13 September 2024
Columns
Ancestral Vibes in Taipei

Taiwan is counting on the abacus to better times, not counting down to doomsday

30 August 2024
Cover Stories
The Awakening

Few societies take more joy in freedom than contemporary India, but we did not get here by accident

09 August 2024
Columns
America’s Godman

The hand of God will not write American foreign policy, but it will influence some of the thinking in a Trump administration

19 July 2024

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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