Democracy will work better if law-makers take the trouble of interacting with ordinary people
17 May 2018Enoch Powell has been condemned less for what he said than how he said it
03 May 2018Our perceptual gap with the West on Russia and the need to educate Uber and Ola drivers
22 March 2018Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen
15 February 2018The embarrassment of a hacked Twitter account and the experience of a budget speech
08 February 2018Modi has used the Union Budget to create the architecture of an India where India and Bharat can begin to complement each other
02 February 2018Brahma 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, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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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