Swapan Dasgupta is India's foremost conservative columnist. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata
I am yet to crack the mystery as to why a literature festival, whose proceedings are in English, enjoys such an enormous popularity
Uday Kulkarni has single-handedly rescued history from the abdication of responsibilities by professional historians
There is a thriving market in history books
Like the Olympics, the football World Cup is an occasion—at least for me—to enjoy pure sport
Urdu’s importance has been declining steadily since a mass of Urdu speakers and writers migrated to Pakistan from northern India and the erstwhile Hyderabad state after Partition
It is all about the personal philosophies of individual judges
Mamata Banerjee chose to have a big event to celebrate the global recognition
Britain’s political continuity
What is deemed enormously significant at a particular time doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time
The supposedly unaccounted wealth of incarcerated politicians
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 the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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