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Swapan Dasgupta

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

Macaulay’s Orphans
Columns
Macaulay’s Orphans

The exaggerated reliance on English

24 February 2023
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India’s Power

The overall status of India as a nonthreatening but rising global player has helped the Adanis, just as it has helped the Tatas and the Ambanis

10 February 2023
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The Success of JLF

I am yet to crack the mystery as to why a literature festival, whose proceedings are in English, enjoys such an enormous popularity

26 January 2023
Maratha Power
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Maratha Power

Uday Kulkarni has single-handedly rescued history from the abdication of responsibilities by professional historians

13 January 2023
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“Popular” History

There is a thriving market in history books

16 December 2022
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General Excitement

Like the Olympics, the football World Cup is an occasion—at least for me—to enjoy pure sport

02 December 2022
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Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Urdu’s importance has been declining steadily since a mass of Urdu speakers and writers migrated to Pakistan from northern India and the erstwhile Hyderabad state after Partition

18 November 2022
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“Scientific” Law?

It is all about the personal philosophies of individual judges

21 October 2022
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Durga Puja: An Intangible Cultural Heritage

Mamata Banerjee chose to have a big event to celebrate the global recognition

07 October 2022

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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