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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

Cover Stories
The Foundational Error

The power balance in Pakistan is poised on a fragile axis. Sharif, Zardari and Khan constitute a lopsided triangle. All three are high-stakes gamblers in the no-limits political casino. The croupier-owner is the army. All three know that this is their last throw of dice

16 February 2024
Columns
Come What May

How interesting can a race with one runner be?

09 February 2024
Columns
Humble in Victory

The consequences of the consecration must reflect sacred virtues

25 January 2024
Columns
And the Winner Will Be Modi

A new year prediction and the plagiarism that added to Churchillian flair

12 January 2024
Columns
Why Modi Wins Elections

Women are the nodal caste in his radical recharacterisation of varna

15 December 2023
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

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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