A new year prediction and the plagiarism that added to Churchillian flair
12 January 2024Women are the nodal caste in his radical recharacterisation of varna
15 December 2023Kissinger reinvented the axis of global equations with breakthrough ideas implemented with breathtaking insouciance
01 December 2023Notes from a big, fat, festive wedding in Ahmedabad with the wrong bridegroom
24 November 2023The other war Netanyahu can’t win and the uses of 1297 pre-dawn press-ups
17 November 2023Gandhi’s sympathy for Jews did not blind him to injustice against Arabs
10 November 2023War kills the young and heroism does not bring them back to life
27 October 2023Does Hamas have an objective beyond widening the arc of destruction?
13 October 2023Dev 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 2023The conceptual daring and strategic potential of an economic corridor
22 September 2023Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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