A lifetime of saying goodbye to people and things—and there was still more to lose
01 May 2020There is nobility in defeat, but no grace in the death of sport
27 March 2020The former CJI, now a member of Rajya Sabha, is a player of chess and well-chosen words
20 March 2020Change 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
06 March 2020When you think Patel, you think big. Or vice versa
28 February 2020The shape of the world tomorrow hinges on the strategic choices the US makes today
21 February 2020America 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
21 February 2020India’s image abroad is at its nadir in decades. New Delhi is not getting its message right, if it has one
14 February 2020A brief history of transfers, name changes and ex nihilo constructions
31 January 2020On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a spectre is haunting Europe, and the world, again
26 January 2020CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap 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 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 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