Shashi Tharoor takes on everything from Modi to the significance of birthdays with his elegant prose, but spreads his umbrella too wide

Harish Khare could have done better than his simplistic jottings to debunk the Modi phenomenon

A measure of honest reserve would serve India’s interests better and win Obama’s respect

In the first of a trilogy which is part history and part memoir, Pranab Mukherjee misses the big picture of history

Remembering Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926—2014), historian, storyteller and friend

How he juggled with supreme ease the personal and the public

The culture of hate in an ignorant, intolerant India

What the nomination of Richard Rahul Verma as America’s ambassador to India tells us about race and the American Dream

Times have changed since Mao told Richard Nixon (and Deng Xiaoping repeated to Rajiv), “Business? Discuss with the premier. Here we discuss philosophical matters”

The joys and sorrows of the Indian soldier in the world theatre of war