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Swapan Dasgupta

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

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For warmer ties with Australia and open minds on period cinema

25 January 2018
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A Rajya Sabha speech that wasn't made, the festive spirit, and the world's best mango chutney

11 January 2018
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The trouble with trade talks, European attitudes towards the Modi dispensation, Christmas as a food festival and the rise of rightwing intellectual spaces

21 December 2017
Just before the demolition on December 6, 1992
Ayodhya: 25 Years Later
The Hindu Inflexion

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

30 November 2017
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The bad journalism of NYT and the good news from Zimbabwe

23 November 2017
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High-key sexual harassment charges and the low-key centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution 

09 November 2017
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A visit to the UN, the Oxbridge and the EU dilemma

26 October 2017
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The legacy of John Le Carre and the life of a political activist

12 October 2017
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Studying in London, political trends in Germany, and the vilification of Meghnad and Kumbhakarna in India

27 September 2017
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The legacy of Swami Vivekananda and the decline of Allahabad University

14 September 2017

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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