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Nandini Nair

Girls enjoying a day out at Caffé Palladio, Jaipur
Dispatch
Jaipur Cool: Pink Panache

Heritage meets swank to create a new Jaipur chic—and it’s not just about a literary festival

18 January 2017
Janhavi Prasada
Books
The Man behind the Mahatma

A retelling of the Gandhi story for the young

18 January 2017
Pada Murmu teaches Santal children in Ghosaldanga
Dispatch
Santali: Talking Time

Two tribal villages in Bengal revive the Santali language

11 January 2017
Sexual Cleansing
Society
Sexual Cleansing

An online community of the young declares war on pornography

04 January 2017
The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius by Eugène Delacroix; the Roman emperor was a practitioner of Stoicism
New Year Double Issue
In Praise of Stoicism

Surviving the age of anxiety

21 December 2016
Books: Highlights of 2017
Books
Books: Highlights of 2017

Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien

17 December 2016
Books: Best of 2016
Books
Books: Best of 2016

From the architecture of the gene to the oral histories of men and women in the former USSR, this year’s best books reveal what it is to be human

14 December 2016
Zadie Smith
Books
Dancing with Zadie Smith

Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf

30 November 2016
Anuk Arudpragasam
Books
A War in Memory

A debut novelist from Sri Lanka returns to war-torn Jaffna in search of questions history has not resolved

09 November 2016
Ravana sends his army to wake Kumbhakarana from his sleep
Books
An Epic Regained

Mewar Ramayana, the finest surviving illustrated manuscript

02 November 2016

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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