This book on the year of liberalisation misses the secrets of Narasimha Rao’s agenda

It’s not for nothing that Indian politicians are so conscious of what they wear

As Odisha makes a historical claim over the sweet, please remember that Bengali cuisine has been as peripatetic as Bengalis

This former RAW chief’s pacy account on Kashmir is not consistently insightful but his pessimism is not off the mark

An insightful analysis of Pakistan—then, now, soon—that Indians have much to gain from

India needs more from the man who has broken the Nehruvian establishment

What the recurring tragedy of Nepal conveys to other Asians

A new age of political adventure lies at the end of an election that might also decide whether Britain is one country or several

Lee Kuan Yew and the making of Singapore—and an Asian vision

The pulp politics of this book is not all that harmless

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…