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Sandeep Balakrishna

Sandeep Balakrishna is founder and chief editor of The Dharma Dispatch. He is the author of, among other titles, Tipu Sultan: the Tyrant of Mysore and Invaders and Infidels: From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions. He has also translated SL Bhyrappa’s Aavarana from Kannada to English

Kamal Haasan in Thug Life
Columns
The Kamal Haasan Saga

Once a great actor and now a wannabe intellectual

13 June 2025
A District Reserve Guard patrol in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, March 16, 2025
Cover Stories
The Afterlife of a Maoist

Saketh Rajan is a case study in how activists, academics and politicians were complicit in glorifying a violent insurgency

30 May 2025
Cover Stories
Pakistan: State of Doom

India has hastened an unravelling that is of Pakistan’s own making

16 May 2025
Columns
The Perils of Insularity

MK Stalin should adopt Chandrababu Naidu’s language formula

13 March 2025
Essay
How Sardar Patel Averted an Attempted Siege of Delhi

The other side of freedom

21 February 2025
Jawaharlal Nehru and VK Krishna Menon, London, October 8, 1949
Feature
The Enemy Within

VK Krishna Menon’s victory in the 1962 North Bombay election resulted in India’s military defeat later that year. It is a warning for Parliament and government today

17 January 2025
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad (Prayagraj), circa 1900
Cover Stories
A Pilgrimage Across Time

The Kumbh Mela is a living miniature of Sanatana civilisation

10 January 2025
The Hindu Quotient
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The Hindu Quotient

The BJP campaign returned to its cultural core and it paid off

29 November 2024
Ritesofsacrilege
Cover Stories
The Rite of Sacrilege

Behind the laddu controversy lies a long-running project of de-Hinduisation of Andhra Pradesh

27 September 2024

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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