The Discreet Hero is a state-of-the-nation novel with the pace of a whodunnit by the last surviving member of a literary club that once ruled the art of the novel

Why the American Century is not over

The purged intellectuals have not given us a counter-argument to the soothing banalities of Kejriwal

V S Naipaul tells the truth in the age of left-liberal cop-out

The story of Modi lies abandoned beyond the notepads of his instant chroniclers

This is the story of three leaders in search of one India, still impatient

On Oscar night, I want to see Birdman flying away with all the statuettes he longed for while he was fighting his demons backstage

This time, it was not a vote against any other leader; it was a vote for a man who should not be allowed to fail again

Between the protector and the persecuted

President Barack Obama at this Republic Day Parade is all about Modi’s mission on his own mythology—and his India

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…