That’s how well we get along, though I plead guilty to being a lapsed reader once too often.
29 December 2009It is hard to forget those who think they can get away with the very worst that humans are capable of.
22 December 2009Moviemakers are blowing up money on stuff that gives me a headache.
15 December 2009Don’t know how high-powered committees think, but some of these poets deserve the honour, surely.
08 December 2009Meet a girl with a tattoo who could haunt you for a long time to come.
01 December 2009He died this month 46 years ago. The assassination was pinned on a crazed gunman, though so many wanted him dead.
24 November 2009How a barely remembered island in the Sunderbans delta links to the chain of events that has led to the Indian State’s woes with Maoists.
18 November 2009That’s what newspapers must start giving as supplements, looking at the state of our country’s politics today.
10 November 2009How does a mediocre writer with recycled plotlines sell 600 million copies across the world?
04 November 2009Tamil Brahmins and brainy diligence go together. Here is why
28 October 2009Brahma 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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