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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
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
Essay
The War for Asia

China studies its old map of expansion as the Ukraine war weakens Russia

18 August 2023
Columns
Tripping in Alliance Hall

And what Oppenheimer really said

04 August 2023
Columns
Politics of Appearance

Dialectics of T-shirts and the slippage of Sharad Pawar

21 July 2023
NTR: He Dared to Play God In Politics—and Won
Essays
NTR: He Dared to Play God In Politics—and Won

Revisiting the NTR mystique on his centenary

19 May 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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