The ambush on April 3rd apart, Maoists seem to be on the run as India intensifies its counter-insurgency operations
Sex scandal hits one of America’s liberal icons
Liberalisation of map-making is a gamechanger for the economy—but with this freedom, too, comes a big responsibility
Why Australia is telling Google and Facebook they are not bigger than governments
The writer who famously took India to America was his own biggest story
With all eyes on the new US administration, China looks set to consolidate its gains while India may find itself lonely
Narrative treatments of three 20th century catastrophes
The Hidden Hand | The Story of China | The Ratline |Agent Sonya | The Habsburgs | The Nine Lives of Pakistan
The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real
What still mattered most was how the US and China dealt with each other
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…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Ram Madhav is Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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