In Brexit the world has witnessed a clash of civilisations—and a vindication of Enoch Powell

The Arun Jaitley Budget, which also marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark Manmohan Singh Budget of 1991, envisions an India sustained by an enlightened state and a less skewed market

Reconciling the eternal India with the changing India

Subhas Chandra Bose: Legend, legacy, folklore, conspiracy and the politics of hidden files

The wild onrush of individualism and the vanishing sense of national purpose. Can India avert a moral decline?

There is more to the history of the Indo-British encounter than Shashi Tharoor’s polished rhetoric

The Race for Happiness in the Age of Irrational Exuberance

Nehru bided his time and came out trumps. Bose rebelled against the mainstream and found himself as an unsuccessful De Gaulle

Tristram Hunt’s portraits of cities such as Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay bring to life the imperial mission

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…