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Roderick Matthews

Roderick Matthews specialises in Indian history. He is the author of Jinnah vs Gandhi and Mountbatten and the Partition of British India

Sorry We Are English
Cover Stories
Sorry We Are English

What a country. We can’t speak properly, or drive sensibly, and we have fallen into stealing each other’s pets to make a living

20 December 2024
Essay
Divided and Angry

Behind Britain’s riots lies the politics of unfairness

23 August 2024
Essay
British Monarchy: Clouds over Windsor

Illness as a metaphor

29 March 2024
Essay
Sunak In Search of a Miracle

As 2024 looks scary, can he do a vintage Boris Johnson?

06 October 2023
Charles the Last?
Essay
Charles the Last?

A degree of indifference and political inertia may preserve the British monarchy for now, but too much has changed that can never be recreated

05 May 2023
Naipaul Under the Woke Gaze
Essay
Naipaul Under the Woke Gaze

Why we should read what he had to say

31 March 2023
The Rage of the Spare Prince
Columns
The Rage of the Spare Prince

The misery memoir of a lost prince

13 January 2023
Essay
What a Hindu prime minister can do to an English ideology

The new conservatives

09 December 2022
Essay
A Prayer for Britain

Liz Truss has made a perfect mess of everything in the shortest time possible

14 October 2022
The Royal Reckoning
Columns
The Royal Reckoning

By her stature, Queen Elizabeth II had kept at bay questions that must be answered now. But is Britain ready?

16 September 2022

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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