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Swapan Dasgupta

Swapan Dasgupta is India's foremost conservative columnist. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata

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Footnote in Political Life

It is not very often that relations between India and another country gets the attention of Parliament

08 August 2025
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The Bengal Files

Maybe, Vivek Agnihotri’s new film will showcase what they experienced and inform today’s Bengalis why it shouldn’t happen again

25 July 2025
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Bengali-isation of BJP

The culture wars will be an interesting facet of next year’s Assembly election in the state

11 July 2025
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Derailment of Democracy

The declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975

27 June 2025
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The history of Six-Day War

And the entire map of the Middle East was transformed

20 June 2025
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Washington’s India Policy

The inability to read the tea leaves

13 June 2025
Bangladesh: An Enemy or a Friend
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Bangladesh: An Enemy or a Friend

Bangladesh is a bit of both

30 May 2025
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“This is not the India I grew up in”

It certainly isn’t. And thank Lord Ram for that.

16 May 2025
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Retributive Justice

The prime minister has promised that those who were first humiliated and then gunned down in cold blood will secure retributive justice

02 May 2025
The Liberation War of Bangladesh
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The Liberation War of Bangladesh

There was a prolonged emotional disengagement of Bengal’s Muslims from Bangladesh’s rulers after 1972

18 April 2025

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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