From Islam to jihad to portraits of the mastermind, a select 9/11 bibliography

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day seeks to memorialise a shared catastrophe of the subcontinent. It could bring people together and find them closure

An integral part of the anti-colonial narrative, football is a story of our missed tryst with destiny

Open Conversation with Niall Ferguson, historian

Israel’s new leader has to be many things he is not

Israel may have got a new prime minister but its longest serving one is not going away for good

Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged

Jerusalem should unite but, for a hundred years, it has only divided

Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, as different as they are, offer a bigger picture when considered together

Ray obsessed about the tiniest detail. A sceptic of the time had grudgingly admitted: ‘How did a city boy know that when a frog dies, it floats on its back?’

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…