S Prasannarajan

Modi’s ongoing conversation with the world provides the first draft of an Indian leader’s vision for himself as the new wise man of the Orient

Narendra Modi’s American journey should be the beginning of a historical correction. The one who could be India’s Reagan should remain untouched by an ism abandoned by history

So will Xi update a classic by the Chairman: Let a billion dreams come true? That will be a Xi change

It is China, a First World power with a Third World mindset, that will test Modi’s still evolving art of internationalism

The videotape jihad has been replaced by the YouTube jihad, and the geography of revolution has shifted from Afghanistan to Syria

Modi’s ‘Broken India’ theme carries the first notation of Conservatism—and a moderniser’s social vision

Narendra Modi could be the one who can tell the world that strength and popularity do not necessarily breed autocracy

The new wave of anti-Semitism is sustained by an ahistorical misreading of the origins of terror and the struggle for existence

In the big bad world, it is again the Russian who happens to be the biggest baddie

The words of Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) made South Africa a less dangerous place—and literature an argument for freedom