Grassroots cultural vigilantism is being matched by digital show trial

It’s a tragedy of our times that it took the highest court of India to bring peace between India’s present and its cultural past

Michel Houellebecq: The novelist as the pathologist of Europe

Three decades after 1989, the autocrat has become the sole choreographer of freedom

The problem with my Savarkar versus your Gandhi

The lone tower of literary criticism

What undermines Modi and his message is not the grievance of a signature but the violence and vulgarism of religious vigilantes

There will always be a Gandhian piece of wisdom to make your politics not retro-cool but smart and urgent

Reading Olga Tokarczuk

Rattled by Modi, we make too much noise about our lost little worlds

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…