Forget the past and move on. A provocative new book questions the moral superiority of historical memory
12 May 2016The illicit alliance against Mamata in West Bengal
28 April 2016The platitudinous bunkum Kejriwal spews with such faux solemnity shows how determined he is to fortify his own mythology as Our Man of Deliverance
21 April 2016India as the pivot of Asia’s security: Going to war with Srinath Raghavan
14 April 2016We have made most of our heroes question-proof. We have made them private collections, labelled and indexed. Thoughts on Ambedkar’s 125th anniversary
07 April 2016What unites kitschy nationalists and secular fundamentalists?
31 March 2016Brussels, ISIS, and the death of moral leadership in the free world
23 March 2016Mystery of places and the familiarity of strangers
17 March 2016The truth behind the crude ingenuity of Donald Trump
10 March 2016Brahma 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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