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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

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
A Prayer for Boris
Cover Story
A Prayer for Boris

The pandemic too shall pass, but it will leave the UK with an experience comparable only to the two World Wars

10 April 2020
The Future of Conservatism
Essays
The Future of Conservatism

The day after the Boris Revolution

27 December 2019
The Election from Hell
Essays
The Election from Hell

A choice between Labour complications and Tory illusions

06 December 2019
Student Supplicant Politician Statesman
Cover Story
Student Supplicant Politician Statesman

London played both active and passive roles in Gandhi’s life. It was where he became a man and a lawyer, and where he first played high-stakes politics. British law shaped him; the orderly part of his system was based squarely on the idea of staying within the law, and expecting your opponents to do the same

27 September 2019

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.

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