Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a journalist and author of several books. He is an Open contributor
Why Britain is the world’s most relaxed multiracial democracy
20 November 2020For China, exclusivity applies everywhere it chooses to go
18 September 2020Juggling with figures remained the first love of the one-time economics teacher in an obscure Bengali college who became India’s youngest finance minister
31 August 2020The struggle is less against those who threaten a rock here and a waterfall there than with those who threaten the idea of India
03 July 2020A lesson from 12th century Angkor Wat where its ruler Jayavarman VII prioritised public health and elevated it to worship
23 May 2020What the ghosts whisper from the pandemic streets of Kolkata
08 May 2020When the history of a different war is written, tribute must be paid to Indian public’s astonishing fortitude
10 April 2020Brahma 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
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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