Sudeep Paul

America’s long-delayed envoy to India is a melting-pot archetype with little time on his hands

There are parallels but also big differences with the Indian tussle between executive and judiciary

Despite his individual genius, Pelé was the archetype of the team player

The afterlife of a Czech industrial town in suburban Kolkata

Black Snow | Indigenous Continent | American Midnight | Fight Like Hell | Legacy of Violence | Stalin’s Library | The Lighthouse of Stalingrad | The Hangman and His Wife | Mussolini in Myth and Memory | Interpreting | Photographs and the Practice of History

The triumphs and tragedy of Indian football

The long afterglow of the best teams that did not win

But his new partners are uncharted territory for Israel and its longest-serving prime minister

You must never write a premature political obituary of the longest-serving prime minister in a chaotic democracy

India had changed the direction of a life spent in the pursuit of things as they were before