A choice between Labour complications and Tory illusions

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

When conservatives throw away the guidebook of tradition

It's complicated: India's Experiments with the ideal

A portrait of the new UK prime minister

The hardest word

Absolutely English

May be a deal

Is the state of his ashram in Bhondsi a reflection of how India remembers Chandra Shekhar, an original in Indian politics?

Seeing, feeling, and thinking with Sir Vidia. Snatches from my conversations with the greatest writer of English prose

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…