Oral contraception once spelt sexual liberation in the West, population control in India. But in Kerala’s tribal belt of Idukki, it has played havoc with women’s lives
Twenty-one years after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, the mysterious Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency, set up to find out who was behind the conspiracy, has provided no answers
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