Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a journalist and author of several books. He is an Open contributor
The last outpost of the Raj still survives in South Block
Living in the past of others
What the world’s longest lasting republic can teach the leader of the world’s largest democracy
…Or, is it that home is where the heart is but the heart is more than a cashbox?
The last Englishman could still be an Indian
A view from the Calcutta Club
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…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma 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 an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Ram Madhav is Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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