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Swapan Dasgupta

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

Open Diary
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Open Diary

Democracy will work better if law-makers take the trouble of interacting with ordinary people

17 May 2018
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Open Diary

Enoch Powell has been condemned less for what he said than how he said it

03 May 2018
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Open Diary

A United Kingdom in the throes of permanent angst

19 April 2018
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Open Diary

The Viceregal Lodge in Shimla and the dismal institute it houses

05 April 2018
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Open Diary

Our perceptual gap with the West on Russia and the need to educate Uber and Ola drivers 

22 March 2018
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Open Diary

The skull of Alum Bheg and the message from Tripura

08 March 2018
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Open Diary

Will the BJP's performance in Tripura rub off on West Bengal?

22 February 2018
Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two
Nehru Vs Patel: An Open Debate
Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

Nehru 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 2018
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Open Diary

The embarrassment of a hacked Twitter account and the experience of a budget speech

08 February 2018
Narendra Modi
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The Equaliser

Modi has used the Union Budget to create the architecture of an India where India and Bharat can begin to complement each other

02 February 2018

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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