Where the revenge of the outsider has not enhanced freedom but diminished it
16 October 2020In the country she lived, it was her life, lower and insignificant, that was the crime waiting to be punished
09 October 2020A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance
02 October 2020A search engine may turn us into useful data. Does that make Google a slave trader?
18 September 2020Between the politburo of knowledge and the callousness of politics
04 September 2020Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.
28 August 2020Every attempt to impose a moral code of conduct on social media smacks of moral dishonesty—and political desperation
21 August 2020Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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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