Swapan Dasgupta
Swapan Dasgupta is an MP and India’s foremost conservative columnist. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right
Afghanistan: Left to God
And a mood of understandable triumphalism in the Taliban
16 July 2021
Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
The impact has been so profound that it has become a shorthand term for almost anything that is viewed as undemocratic
02 July 2021
Curzonian Foreign Policy
Curzon’s strategic vision is slowly finding a place in India’s foreign policy objectives
18 June 2021
The Idea of Central Vista
In line with an India that is on the cusp of becoming a Great Power
04 June 2021
The Ghost in Politics
The next time, BJP in West Bengal will have an army of activists who imbibed the lessons of failure
21 May 2021
A Political Transformation
For the first time, the BJP is on the cusp of creating history in West Bengal
12 March 2021
Where Politics Is Passion
The trick in an election is to balance the national appeal with local faces. Language matters, and often doesn’t matter
26 February 2021
The Mother of All Elections
A fierce do-or-die confrontation between the doughty Mamata Banerjee and the BJP
12 February 2021
The Rites of Liberation
The Rites of Liberation The Modi government held its nerve and enhanced India’s faith in itself
05 February 2021
A New Breed of Public Figures
Those who seek to combine an update on current affairs with gladiatorial entertainment
29 January 2021
Authors
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 Islam
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and 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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