The Americans are cleaning up their country, and if some of our citizens were contributing to the fouling of the environment, they had better be removed
Five hundred days after the October 7 attack, Israeli hostages are coming home as part of a fragile peace deal. Swapan Dasgupta travels across an Israel where hope is tempered with existential anxiety. A dispatch
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