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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

Columns
Henry the Last

Kissinger reinvented the axis of global equations with breakthrough ideas implemented with breathtaking insouciance

01 December 2023
Columns
What Prayers Can’t Preclude

Notes from a big, fat, festive wedding in Ahmedabad with the wrong bridegroom

24 November 2023
Columns
Bibi’s Hubris and the Shaikh’s Diet

The other war Netanyahu can’t win and the uses of 1297 pre-dawn press-ups

17 November 2023
Essay
The Moral Realist

Gandhi’s sympathy for Jews did not blind him to injustice against Arabs

10 November 2023
Columns
The Goddess and Armageddon

War kills the young and heroism does not bring them back to life

27 October 2023
Columns
Destiny’s Doctrine

Does Hamas have an objective beyond widening the arc of destruction?

13 October 2023
Cinema
The Star Who Wore the Scarf of Eternity

Dev Anand wanted to live on the screen, sometimes with a switchblade in a hand, more happily with a song on his lips, and always with the certainty that life was worth every moment of existence. He knew the inevitability of death, but hated the cruelty of age. MJ Akbar remembers the evergreen hero on his centenary

29 September 2023
Columns
The Circle Gets Bigger

The conceptual daring and strategic potential of an economic corridor

22 September 2023
Columns
One Vote for One Nation That Is Bharat

By the way, were Indira and Nehru anti-federal because they held all elections on a single day?

07 September 2023
Columns
Romancing the Moon

When science encounters faith and philosophy

25 August 2023

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

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

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