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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is a Congress MP. He is the author of, among other titles, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy and Ambedkar: A Life

Essays
Seeking Truth with Tagore

Thoughts on the uses of his ideas on the eve of his 80th death anniversary

30 July 2021
The Limits of Leadership
Essay
The Limits of Leadership

Is the role of the individual in history overestimated?

09 July 2021
What’s Past is Prologue
Columns
What’s Past is Prologue

Listen to the whispers of history and be warned

04 June 2021
We Have Done It Ourselves
Cover Stories
We Have Done It Ourselves

In praise of cooperative leadership

25 December 2020
The Scarred Megapolis
Books
The Scarred Megapolis

The evolution of Delhi as a city of the unfortunates comes alive in this novel by a master storyteller

30 October 2020
In Praise of the Indian Voter
Essay
In Praise of the Indian Voter

The redeeming surprises of a volatile democracy

26 June 2020
Remembering a Visionary Strategist
In Memoriam
Remembering a Visionary Strategist

Verghese Koithara’s approach combined the rigour of a scholar with the intimate knowledge of the practitioner

19 June 2020
A Lockdown ‘Workaholic’
Columns
A Lockdown ‘Workaholic’

A life without three things that had kept me busy

15 May 2020
Ideas of the Nation
Essays
Ideas of the Nation

India is in the grip of the very majoritarianism that Ambedkar had warned against

20 March 2020
Features
In Defence of the Absolute Citizen

In a constitutional democracy, politics cannot be reduced to the advocacy of pre-set interests

17 January 2020

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

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

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