×

Pallavi Aiyar

Pallavi Aiyar is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has spent the last two decades reporting from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. Her most recent book is Orienting: An Indian in Japan. She is a contributor to Open

The Revision Fetish
Columns
The Revision Fetish

Does renaming streets or demolishing statues redeem history?

23 September 2022
Columns
Abe’s Unfinished Business

Can Japan spend more on defence without changing its pacifist constitution?

09 September 2022
Columns
A Passage to the Company?

An encounter with the Kafkaesque British visa regime

26 August 2022
Shinzo Abe: The Man Who Did Too Much
Columns
What Killed Shinzo Abe?

The former prime minister’s assassination shows Japan’s relationship with religion is ambiguous

11 August 2022
Columns
Left, Right or Centre?

The ideological dyslexia of the thinking individual

29 July 2022
Columns
The Morality of the Mobile Phone

It’s better to appreciate technology for what it is than what it’s not

15 July 2022
Columns
India in Europe’s Mirror

The country once had the credentials to inspire the EU

01 July 2022
Columns
Confessions of a Bad Guru

A columnist’s worst enemy is confirmation bias

17 June 2022
Columns
Hindi Is Not Indian

Lessons from the linguistic choices made by China and Indonesia

03 June 2022
Columns
An Endearing Enigma

How does one explain India abroad?

20 May 2022

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 several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

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 professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.

Magazine

Subscribe today and save up to 85% off the cover price