Four centuries of the African-American journey

India has a basket of opportunities in a changing world order that it cannot yet touch

Taiwan could have contributed a lot to the debate on Covid-19

A lifetime of saying goodbye to people and things—and there was still more to lose

There is nobility in defeat, but no grace in the death of sport

The former CJI, now a member of Rajya Sabha, is a player of chess and well-chosen words

Change has been relentless since the BJP’s big victory in the 2019 General Election, creating a political volatility India has not experienced in a long time

When you think Patel, you think big. Or vice versa

The shape of the world tomorrow hinges on the strategic choices the US makes today

America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…